U.S. nuclear weapons force : reduction and modernization / Leslie Bradfield, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradfield, Leslie.

Series:

Defense, security and strategy series.

Defense, security and strategies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--United States.

Nuclear weapons.

Strategic forces--United States.

Strategic forces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The United States is concurrently pursuing the goals of reducing the size of its nuclear weapons force strategic and non-strategic, deployed and non-deployed and of modernizing the weapons it continues to possess. Many of the existing systems were deployed 30 to 50 years ago, and the modernization process can be expected to extend over the next decade or more. This book examines the motivations for reductions and modernization; reviews a number of historical systems; discusses the current path forward for the United States nuclear force; provides background, developments, and issues of the United States strategic nuclear forces; and discusses a nuclear posture review report. (Imprint: Nova)

Contents:

Reductions without regret: avoiding box canyons, roach motels, and wrong turns / John A. Swegle and and Douglas J. Tincher

U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: background, developments, and issues / Amy F. Woolf

Nuclear posture review report / U.S. Department of Defense.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 31, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62948-888-7