National Security And Nuclear Strategy

Author : J. I. Coffey
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822975953

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Strategic Power and National Security by J. I. Coffey Pdf

In this closely reasoned and lucid analysis, an important thinker on American strategy surveys weapons technology and its military and political implications for the 1970s. J. I. Coffey refutes the argument that American national security requires "superior" strategic offensive forces or extensive air and missile defenses. In so doing he assesses in simple terms the various factors involved in this complex and difficult subject. While many books on strategy deal only with a single area or a particular weapons system, this work synthesizes technical and non-technical considerations across the whole range of national security issues affected by strategic power-war-fighting, deterrence, Communist behavior, alliance relationships, nuclear proliferation, and arms control. Its orderly and authoritative marshaling of tabulated data, its citations from Department of Defense documents and congressional hearings, and its classifications of the alternative options which strategy makers can now pursue, are all invaluable to both the student of national security and the professional strategist.

Author : Thomas M. Nichols
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812245660

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No Use by Thomas M. Nichols Pdf

For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, the Chinese, and other major nuclear powers, continue to retain a deep faith in the political and military value of nuclear force, and this belief remains enshrined at the center of U.S. defense policy regardless of the radical changes that have taken place in international politics. In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols offers a lucid, accessible reexamination of the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy. Nichols explains why strategies built for the Cold War have survived into the twenty-first century, and he illustrates how America's nearly unshakable belief in the utility of nuclear arms has hindered U.S. and international attempts to slow the nuclear programs of volatile regimes in North Korea and Iran. From a solid historical foundation, Nichols makes the compelling argument that to end the danger of worldwide nuclear holocaust, the United States must take the lead in abandoning unrealistic threats of nuclear force and then create a new and more stable approach to deterrence for the twenty-first century.

Author : Scott Douglas Sagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691221755

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Moving Targets by Scott Douglas Sagan Pdf

In what Stanley Hoffmann, writing in The New York Review of Books, has called a "fine analysis and critique of American targeting policies," Sagan looks more at the operational side of nuclear strategy than previous analysts have done, seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Author : Norman A. Graebner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1986-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198021032

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The National Security : Its Theory and Practice, 1945-1960 by Norman A. Graebner Pdf

Based on a conference at West Point, this volume explores the national security policies developed by the Truman and Eisenhower administrations in response to the threat of Soviet expansionism. More pointed and analytic than any other book on the subject, it shows clearly that the makers of Cold War policy were motivated by fear. It also examines the nature of U.S. security policy and points to the growing gap between the ends and the means of global security policy--to protect Western democracy from the "Red Menace" by using a nuclear strategy with limited applications. The contributors, including David Alan Rosenberg, Lloyd C. Gardner, Martin J. Sherwin and Gary W. Reichard, explore such issues as how dependence on nuclear weapons became the central doctrine of American foreign policy, the bureaucratic and political context of U.S. security, Eisenhower's ongoing disputes with Army and Navy leaders over the security issue, the objections of Democrats to the evolving security strategy, and the limits of Cold War policy, particularly how the viewing of the Third World through a U.S.-Soviet prism impeded the U.S. from developing a truly global security policy. Written in an accessible, journalistic style, The National Security makes available a wealth of information on the Cold War period and offers insights into fears that dominate political thinking to this day.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Sipri Monograph
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0198291434

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Security Without Nuclear Weapons? by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

This book examines the question: Is the elimination of nuclear weapons feasible? Individual chapters address the major conceptual, technical, and economic issues in the design of a non-nuclear security regime. Other chapters explore more specialized issues as they relate to the feasibility of the elimination of nuclear weapons: elite perceptions and the decision-making process, verification, nuclear proliferation, fissile materials and warheads, alliance and regional hegemonies, and deterrence.

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037638710

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National Security Strategy by Stephen J. Cimbala Pdf

This invaluable collection of essays examines national security strategy from amny points of view.

Author : Amos A. Jordan,William Jesse Taylor,Lawrence J. Korb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556018917591

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American National Security by Amos A. Jordan,William Jesse Taylor,Lawrence J. Korb Pdf

Author : Donald G. Brennan
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UOM:39015054060762

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Arms Control, Disarmament, and National Security by Donald G. Brennan Pdf

"Based on a special issue (fall 1960) of Daedalus." Bibliography: p. 457-470.

Author : Regina Cowen Karp
Publisher : Sipri Monograph
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019827839X

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Security with Nuclear Weapons? by Regina Cowen Karp Pdf

SIPRIStockholm International Peace Research Institute is an independent institute for scientific research, which aims to further an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts and for a stable peace. Over the past twenty years, SIPRI has concentrated on problems ofarmaments, disarmament, and arms regulation. SIPRI is financed mainly by the Swedish Parliament. Its staff, the Governing Board, and the Scientific Council are international.The prospect of large reductions of nuclear weapons poses fundamental questions about the purpose of nuclear weapons. Why have some states chosen to acquire nuclear weapons? How - and why - have these decisions been maintained over time? Why have some states elected to approach, but not cross, thenuclear threshold?This book examines the commonalities and differences in political approaches to nuclear weapons both within and among three groups of states: nuclear, non-nuclear, and threshold. The chapters explore the evolution of thinking about nuclear weapons and the role these weapons play in nationalsecurity planning.The book transcends traditional East-West approaches to analysis of nuclear issues by giving equal prominence to the issues of nuclear proliferation and non-nuclearism. The book also provides a comprehensive analysis of how current approaches to nuclear weapons have evolved both within and amongthe countries under study.

Author : William W. Kaufmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081088416

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Military Policy and National Security by William W. Kaufmann Pdf

Author : Robert H. Connery,Demetrios Caraley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Military policy
ISBN : UCAL:B3909029

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National Security and Nuclear Strategy by Robert H. Connery,Demetrios Caraley Pdf

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : National security
ISBN : UOM:39015024891213

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National Security Strategy of the United States by United States. President Pdf

Author : Rajesh M. Basrur
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN : 9971694441

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Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security by Rajesh M. Basrur Pdf

In this book, the leading authority on India's nuclear program offers an informed and thoughtful assessment of India's nuclear strategy. Basrur shows that the country's nuclear culture is generally in accord with the principle of minimum deterrence but sometimes drifts into a more open-ended view.

Author : Ian R. Kenyon,John Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134730384

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Deterrence and the New Global Security Environment by Ian R. Kenyon,John Simpson Pdf

This collection of papers rigorously examines the current place of deterrence in international security relations, delivering the best of contemporary thinking. This is a special issue of the leading journal Contemporary Security Policy. It shows how and why nuclear deterrence was the central organizing mechanism for international security relations in the second half of the twentieth century. It has been replaced by a new global security environment in which the central role of deterrence, both nuclear and otherwise, appears to have diminished. The Cold War has been succeeded by a new state of play. This book will be of interest to students of military and naval history and security studies.

Author : Roman Kolkowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135779887

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Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy by Roman Kolkowicz Pdf

This volume reflects the research and discussions for the Bellagio Conference, with a spcial emphasis on the distinct perspective introduced by the Europeans on the issues of superpower strategic relations in general and on MAD and SDI in particular. Their views are shaped by concerns on how these broader issues might affect their own national security interests.