Strategic Nuclear Targeting

✍ Scribed by Desmond Ball (editor); Jeffrey Richelson (editor)

Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 361
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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