Research Catalog

Title

The evolution of nuclear strategy / Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels.

Author

Freedman, Lawrence, 1956-

Publication

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

Michaels, Jeffrey H.

Description

xviii, 786 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The 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 completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, and covering all nuclear powers"--

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Nuclear warfare
• Military policy
• Deterrence (Strategy) > History > 20th century
• International relations > History > 20th century
• Deterrence (Strategy)
• International relations

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• New, updated and completely revised--Title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The arrival of the bomb -- The strategy of Hiroshima -- Offence and defence -- Aggression and retaliation -- Strategy for an atomic monopoly -- Strategy for an atomic stalemate -- Massive retaliation -- Limited objectives -- Limited means -- The importance of being first -- Sputnik and the Soviet threat -- Soviet strategy after Stalin -- The technological arms race -- New sources of strategy -- The strategy of stable conflict -- Disarmament to arms control -- Operational nuclear strategy -- Khrushchev's second-best deterrent -- Defending Europe -- No cities -- Assured destruction -- Britain's 'independent' nuclear deterrent -- France and the credibility of nuclear guarantees -- A NATO nuclear force -- The unthinkable weapon -- China's paper tiger -- The Soviet approach to deterrence -- The McNamara legacy -- SALT, parity and the critique of MAD -- Actions and reactions -- Selective options -- ICBM vulnerability -- The rise of anti-nuclear protest -- Strategic defenses -- Soviet doctrine from Brezhnev to Gorbachev -- The end of the Cold War -- Mutual assured safety -- Elimination or marginalization -- The second nuclear age -- The nuclear war on terror -- Proliferation : the Middle East and the Pacific -- The return of great power politics -- Primacy and maximum deterrence -- Can there be a nuclear strategy?.

Call Number

JFD 20-685

ISBN

• 113757349X
• 9781137573490

OCLC

1082967637

Author

Freedman, Lawrence, 1956- author.

Title

The evolution of nuclear strategy / Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels.

Publisher

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Edition

Fourth edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Michaels, Jeffrey H., author.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-685