Nuclear weapons and strategy : U.S. nuclear policy for the twenty-first century / Stephen J. Cimbala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cimbala, Stephen J.

Series:

Contemporary security studies.

Contemporary security studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear warfare.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence. This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush administration, having deposed the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, now points to a new nuclear ""Axis of Evil"": Iran and North Korea. These nations and other rogue states, as well as terrorists, may pose key threats because they are ""beyond deterrence"", which was based on the credible f

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Technology and Deterrence in the New World Order; 2 Can Missile Defenses Overturn Deterrence?; 3 Conventionalizing U.S. and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces; 4 Nuclear Proliferation and Causal Explanation; 5 Nuclear Proliferation in Asia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [114]-119) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-99044-1

1-280-36106-9

9786610361069

0-203-08737-2

9780203087374

OCLC:

475972320