Nuclear Past, Nuclear Present

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, And Contemporary Strategy

Ian Clark (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

158 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-00848-2 (ISBN)

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Dr. Clark contends that the August 1945 experience was crucially formative and gave rise to a set of influential assumptions about the moral acceptability of using nuclear weapons, the rationality of nuclear decision making, and the controllability of nuclear operations.

The controversial atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 represent the only occasions when atomic weapons have been employed in war, yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the relationship between the bombings and the course of subsequent nuclear strategy. Dr. Clark contends that the August 1945 experience was crucially forma

Ian Clark is a fellow of Selwyn College and teaching fellow in Defense Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Limited Nuclear War (1982) and coeditor of The Indian Ocean in Global Politics (Westview, 1981).

Westview Special Studies -- The Hiroshima Axioms -- Our Present Discontents -- Nuclear Non-Decision Making -- Nuclear Policy and the Friction of War -- Nuclear War and Its Termination -- Nuclear War and Its Justification -- Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Present -- Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-367-00848-3 / 0367008483
ISBN-13	978-0-367-00848-2 / 9780367008482
Zustand	Neuware