The Future of U.S. nuclear weapons policy / Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States.

Nuclear weapons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The debate about appropriate purposes and policies for U.S. nuclear weapons has been under way since the beginning of the nuclear age. With the end of the Cold War, the debate has entered a new phase, propelled by the post-Cold War transformations of the international political landscape. This volume-based on an exhaustive reexamination of issues addressed in The Future of the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Relationship (NRC, 1991)-describes the state to which U.S. and Russian nuclear forces and policies have evolved since the Cold War ended. The book evaluates a regime of progressive constraints for future U.S. nuclear weapons policy that includes further reductions in nuclear forces, changes in nuclear operations to preserve deterrence but enhance operational safety, and measures to help prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons. In addition, it examines the conditions and means by which comprehensive nuclear disarmament could become feasible and desirable.

Contents:

Front Matter

Foreword

Contents

Executive Summary

1 Why Change U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy?

2 Current U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

3 A Regime of Progressive Constraints

4 Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

APPENDIX A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

APPENDIX B The Buildup and Builddown of Nuclear Forces.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780309174640

0309174643

9780309518376

0309518377

9780585002002

0585002002

OCLC:

42328491