Strategy in the second nuclear age : power, ambition, and the ultimate weapon / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yoshihara, Toshi.

Holmes, James R., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear warfare.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy.

Nuclear weapons.

Strategic forces.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2012]

Summary:

A "second nuclear age" has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more states to cross the nuclear-weapons threshold from Iran to Japan suggest that the second nuclear age of many competing nuclear powers has the potential to be even less stable than the first.

Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age assembles a group of distinguished scholars to grapple with the matter of how the United States and its allies must size up the strategies, doctrines, and force structures currently taking shape if they are to design responses that reinforce deterrence amid vastly more complex strategic circumstances. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes

After proliferation: deterrence theory and emerging nuclear powers / Joshua Rovner

South Africa's nuclear strategy: deterring "total onslaught" and "nuclear blackmail" in three stages / Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess

The future of Chinese nuclear strategy / Christopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, and Michael S. Chase

North Korea's nuclear weapons program: motivations, strategy, and doctrine / Terence Roehrig

Changing perceptions of extended deterrence in Japan / James L. Schoff

Thinking about the unthinkable: Tokyo's nuclear option / James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara

India's nuclear strategy / Anupam Srivastava and Seema Gahlaut

The future of India's undersea nuclear deterrent / Andrew C. Winner

Pakistan's nuclear posture: thinking about the unthinkable? / Timothy D. Hoyt

Regime type, nuclear reversals, and nuclear strategy: the ambiguous case of Iran / Scott A. Jones and James R. Holmes

Conclusion: thinking about strategy in the second nuclear age / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589019287

1589019288

OCLC:

774021162