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The end of overkill? : reassessing U.S. nuclear weapons policy / Benjamin Friedman, Christopher Preble, and Matt Fay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedman, Benjamin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--Government policy--United States.
- Nuclear nonproliferation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (40 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems-bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)-to deliver them. A new paper from Benjamin H. Friedman, Christopher A. Preble and Matt Fay encourages abandonment of the triad and skepticism about the received wisdom justifying U.S. nuclear weapons' policies. The authors suggest that shifting to a submarine-based monad would serve U.S. deterrent needs and eventually save taxpayers roughly 20 billion a year.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 30, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781939709332
- 1939709334
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