Nuclear heuristics : selected writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter / Robert Zarate, Henry Sokolski, editors.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Wohlstetter, Albert

Contributor:

Wohlstetter, Roberta

Zarate, Robert

Sokolski, Henry D.

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

Series:

War and Terrorism Collection

Academic OneFile

Military & Intelligence Database

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Deterrence (Strategy).

Nuclear weapons--Developing countries.

Nuclear weapons.

Ballistic missile defenses--History.

Ballistic missile defenses.

United States--Military policy--20th century.

United States.

National security--United States.

National security.

Security, International.

Military policy.

Developing countries.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 679 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Carlisle, Pa.] : [Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College], [2009]

Summary:

Pioneers of nuclear-age policy analysis, Albert Wohlstetter (1913-1997) and Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007) emerged as two of America's most consequential, innovative and controversial strategists. Through the clarity of their thinking, the rigor of their research, and the persistence of their personalities, they were able to shape the views and aid the decisions of Democratic and Republican policy makers both during and after the Cold War. Although the Wohlstetters' strategic concepts and analytical methods continue to be highly influential, no book has brought together their most important essays--until now.

Contents:

Introduction

Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy / Robert Zarate

I. Analysis and Design of Strategic Policy

Commentary: How He Worked / Henry S. Rowan

Theory and Opposed-Systems Design (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter

II. Nuclear Deterrence

Commentary: On Nuclear Deterrence / Alain C. Enthoven

The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958) / Albert Wohlstetter

Excerpts on "Missile Gap" from General Comments on Senator Kennedy's National Security Speeches (circa 1960) / Albert Wohlstetter

On the Genesis of Nuclear Strategy: Letter to Michael Howard (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter

III. Nuclear Proliferation

Commentary: Timely Warnings Still

the Wohlstetters and Nuclear Proliferation / Henry Sokolski

Nuclear Sharing: NATO and the N + 1 Country (1961) / Albert Wohlstetter

Spreading the Bomb without Quite Breaking the Rules (1976) / Albert Wohlstetter

The Buddha Smiles: U.S. Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb (1978) / Roberta Wohlstetter

Signals, Noise and Article IV (1979) / Albert Wohlstetter, Gregory S. Jones and Roberta Wohlstetter

Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the "FSU" and the "FSRs" (1992) / Albert Wohlstetter

IV. Arms Race Myth vs. Strategic Competition's Reality

Commentary: Arms Race Myths vs. Strategic Competition's Reality / Richard Perle

The Case for Strategic Force Defense (1969) / Albert Wohlstetter

Racing Forward? Or Ambling Back? (1976) / Albert Wohlstetter

On Arms Control: What We Should Look for in an Arms Agreement (1985) / Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter

Arms Control That Could Work (1985) / Albert Wohlstetter and Brian G. Chow

V. Towards Discriminate Deterrence

Commentary: Towards Discriminate Deterrence / Stephen J. Lukasik

Strength, Interest and New Technologies (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter

How Much is Enough? How Mad is MAD? (1974) / Albert Wohlstetter

Bishops, Statesmen, and Other Strategists on the Bombing of Innocents (1983) / Albert Wohlstetter

Connecting the Elements of the Strategy: Excerpt from Discriminate Deterrence (1988)

The Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy

RPM, or Revolutions by the Minute (1992) / Albert Wohlstetter

VI. Limiting and Managing New Risks

Commentary: Strategy as a Profession in the Future Security Environment / Andrew W. Marshall

End of Cold War? End of History and All War?: Excerpt from an Outline for a Memoir (1989) / Albert Wohlstetter

The Fax Shall Make You Free (1990) / Albert Wohlstetter

The Bitter End: The Case for Re-Intervention in Iraq (1991) / Albert Wohlstetter and Fred S. Hoffman

What the West Must Do in Bosnia: An Open Letter to President Clinton (1993) / Albert Wohlstetter and Margaret Thatcher

Boris Yeltsin as Abraham Lincoln? (1995) / Albert Wohlstetter.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on January 26, 2009).

"January 2009."

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Nuclear heuristics

ISBN:

1584873701

9781584873709

OCLC:

299759154

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