The evolution of nuclear strategy

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Title:

The evolution of nuclear strategy

Author:

Freedman, Lawrence.

ISBN:

9780333972397

9780333652985

Personal Author:

Freedman, Lawrence.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Physical Description:

xix, 566 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Sect. 8. Retreat from Assured Destruction -- 22. Military-Industrial Complexities -- 23. The Consensus Undermined -- 24. Parity -- 25. Selective Options -- 26. The Reagan Administration and the Great Nuclear Debate -- 27. The Threat Evaporates -- 28. The Second Nuclear Age -- 29. Can there be a Nuclear Strategy?

Sect. 1. First and Second Thoughts -- 1. The Arrival of the Bomb -- 2. Offence and Defence -- 3. Aggression and Retaliation -- Sect. 2. Towards a Policy of Deterrence -- 4. Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly -- 5. Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate -- 6. Massive Retaliation -- Sect. 3. Limited War -- 7. Limited Objectives -- 8. Limited Means -- Sect. 4. The Fear of Surprise Attack -- 9. The Importance of Being First -- 10. Sputniks and the Soviet Threat -- 11. The Technological Arms Race -- Sect. 5. The Strategy of Stable Conflict -- 12. The Formal Strategists -- 13. Arms Control -- 14. Bargaining and Escalation -- Sect. 6. From Counter-Force to Assured Destruction -- 15. City-Avoidance -- 16. Assured Destruction -- 17. The Soviet Approach to Deterrence -- 18. The Chinese Connection -- Sect. 7. The European Dimension -- 19. A Conventional Defence for Europe -- 20. The European Nuclear Option: (i) Anglo-Saxon Views -- 21. The European Nuclear Option: (ii) French and German Views.

Subject Term:

Nuclear warfare.

Military policy.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002192654.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol031/2002192654.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol052/2002192654.html

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Summary

First published twenty years ago, Lawrence Freedman's Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, taking the story to contemporary arguments about missile defence.