Description: Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy, Paperback by Glaser, Charles L., ISBN 0691606781, ISBN-13 9780691606781, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of . 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. Glasers provocative work is organized in three parts. "The Questions behind the Questions" evaluates the basic factual and theoretical disputes that underlie disagreements about . 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, . superiority, and nuclear disarmament. Would any basic alternatives be preferable to MAD? Drawing on the earlier sections of th, "Decisions in MAD" addresses key choices facing American decision makers.
Originally published in 1990.
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Book Title: Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy
Number of Pages: 394 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Military / Nuclear Warfare, Public Policy / Military Policy, International Relations / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Author: Charles L. Glaser
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Format: Trade Paperback
