Strategy and Nuclear Deterrence

✍ Scribed by Steven E. Miller

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 312
Series: International Security Readers; 749
Edition: Course Book
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book of selections from the distinguished journal International Security speaks to the most important question of our age: the deterrence of nuclear war.

Originally published in 1985.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
The Contributors
Preface
DETERRENCE AND DETERRENCE FAILURE
The Development of Nuclear Strategy
Nuclear Strategy: A Case for a Theory of Victory
Deterrence and Perception
Inadvertent Nuclear War ?
THE EVOLUTION OI AMERICAN STRATEGY
The Origins of Overkill
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Concepts in the 1970s
U.S. Strategic Forces
The Countervailing Strategy
THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The Political Potential of Equivalence
The Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons

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