Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (eBook)

Charles L. Glaser (Autor)

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2014
394 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6202-3 (ISBN)

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With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.S. defense policy, it is time to reassess basic questions of American nuclear strategy and force requirements. In a comprehensive analysis of these issues, Charles Glaser argues that even before the recent easing of tension with the Soviet Union, the United States should have revised its nuclear strategy, rejecting deterrent threats that require the ability to destroy Soviet nuclear forces and forgoing entirely efforts to limit damage if all-out nuclear war occurs. Changes in the Soviet Union, suggests Glaser, may be best viewed as creating an opportunity to make revisions that are more than twenty years overdue. Glaser's provocative work is organized in three parts. "The Questions behind the Questions" evaluates the basic factual and theoretical disputes that underlie disagreements about U.S. nuclear weapons policy. "Alternative Nuclear Worlds" compares "mutual assured destruction capabilities" (MAD)--a world in which both superpowers' societies are highly vulnerable to nuclear retaliation--to the basic alternatives: mutual perfect defenses, U.S. superiority, and nuclear disarmament. Would any basic alternatives be preferable to MAD? Drawing on the earlier sections of the book, "Decisions in MAD" addresses key choices facing American decision makers.Originally published in 1990.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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System • Aftermath of World War II • Anti-Ballistic Missile • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty • Anti-satellite weapon • arms control • Arms Control and Disarmament Agency • assured destruction • Atomic Age • Balance of terror • ballistic missile • Ballistic missile submarine • Berlin Blockade • Bernard Brodie (military strategist) • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Central Europe • Cold War • Cold War (1985–91) • containment • Council on Foreign Relations • counterforce • Countervalue • cruise missile • cuban missile crisis • Detonation • Directed-energy weapon • Disarmament • First Order (Star Wars) • foreign policy • Foreign policy analysis • Foreign policy of the United States • Hans Morgenthau • Industrial society • Intercontinental Ballistic Missile • Intermediate-range ballistic missile • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty • International crisis • International Security • John Mearsheimer • Marshal of the Soviet Union • Medium-range ballistic missile • Militarism • Military Deployment • military doctrine • Military Operation • Military policy • Military Strategy • Military threat • Missile launch facility • national security • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear energy policy • Nuclear Ethics • Nuclear explosion • Nuclear peace • Nuclear power • Nuclear power plant • nuclear proliferation • nuclear strategy • Nuclear triad • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapon design • Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty • Peace and Conflict Studies • Pergamon Press • Pershing II • physics today • policy debate • Political Economy • Pre-emptive nuclear strike • Preemptive war • preventive war • Schlesinger Doctrine • Scientific American • security dilemma • security studies • Soviet Empire • Soviet Military Power • Soviet Union • Soviet Union–United States relations • Spin (propaganda) • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks • Strategic bomber • Strategic Defense Initiative • Strategic goal (military) • Strategic Missile Troops • Strategic nuclear weapon • Submarine-launched ballistic missile • Superiority (short story) • Tactical ballistic missile • Tactical nuclear weapon • UGM-133 Trident II • United States national missile defense • weapon of mass destruction
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6202-7 / 1400862027
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6202-3 / 9781400862023