Strategic Nuclear Targeting / Desmond Ball, Jeffrey Richelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ball, Desmond, Editor.

Richelson, Jeffrey, Editor.

Series:

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Studies.

Security Studies.

Local Subjects:

International Studies.

Security Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although there is much discussion about nations' general policies for nuclear war, most American know little about the actual war plans of the United States and its allies and adversaries. This collection of essays by thirteen academic and professional strategists seeks to close this gap by addressing the basic issues of nuclear targeting policy: the targets to be attacked, the timing of those attacks, and the intended impact of the targeting strategy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Glossary

1. Toward a Critique of Strategic Nuclear Targeting

2. U.S. Nuclear War Planning, 1945-1960

3. The Development of the SIOP, 1960-1983

4. Soviet Nuclear Targeting Strategy

5. British Nuclear Targeting

6. French Nuclear Targeting

7. The Dilemmas of Counterpower Targeting

8. Targeting Problems for Central War

9. On Keeping Them Down; or, Why Do Recovery Models Recover So Fast?

10. Exemplary Industrial Targets for Controlled Conflict

11. Population Targeting and U.S. Strategic Doctrine

12. Targeting Nuclear Energy

13. Ethnic Targeting: Some Bad Ideas

14. War Termination and Nuclear Targeting Strategy

Contributors

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3331-1

OCLC:

1178769477