Research Catalog

Title

Nuclear heuristics : selected writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter / Robert Zarate, Henry Sokolski, editors.

Publication

Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2009]

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Additional Authors

• Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80120847
• Sokolski, Henry D.
• Zarate, Robert.

Description

xi, 679 p. : ill., charts; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Security, International
• United States > Military policy > 20th century
• Nuclear nonproliferation
• Ballistic missile defenses > History
• Deterrence (Strategy)
• Nuclear weapons > Developing countries
• National security > United States

Note

• "January 2009."
• 'With commentaries by Henry S. Rowan, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Pearl, Stephen J. Lukasik & Andrew Marshall"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Biography (note)

• Robert Zarate is a Research Fellow at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC which was founded in 1994, to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. Henry Sokolski is the organization's Executive Director. Alain C. Enthoven is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and a core faculty member at Stanford's Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research. Stephen J. Lukasik is a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Andrew W. Marshall is the founder of hte Office of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has served as its Director since 1973. Richard Perle is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, DC. Henry S. Rowan is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of public policy and management emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and a member of Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center.

Contents

Introduction - Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy / Robert Zarate -- I. Analysis and Design of Strategic Policy - Commentary: How He Worked / Henry S. Rowan - Theory and Opposed-Systems Design (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter -- II. Nuclear Deterrence - Commentary: On Nuclear Deterrence / Alain C. Enthoven - The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958) / Albert Wohlstetter - Excerpts on "Missile Gap" from General Comments on Senator Kennedy's National Security Speeches (circa 1960) / Albert Wohlstetter - On the Genesis of Nuclear Strategy: Letter to Michael Howard (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter - III. Nuclear Proliferation - Commentary: Timely Warnings Still - the Wohlstetters and Nuclear Proliferation / Henry Sokolski - Nuclear Sharing: NATO and the N + 1 Country (1961) / Albert Wohlstetter - Spreading the Bomb without Quite Breaking the Rules (1976) / Albert Wohlstetter - The Buddha Smiles: U.S. Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb (1978) / Roberta Wohlstetter - Signals, Noise and Article IV (1979) / Albert Wohlstetter, Gregory S. Jones and Roberta Wohlstetter - Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the "FSU" and the "FSRs" (1992) / Albert Wohlstetter -- IV. Arms Race Myth vs. Strategic Competition's Reality - Commentary: Arms Race Myths vs. Strategic Competition's Reality / Richard Perle - The Case for Strategic Force Defense (1969) / Albert Wohlstetter - Racing Forward? Or Ambling Back? (1976) / Albert Wohlstetter - On Arms Control: What We Should Look for in an Arms Agreement (1985) / Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter - Arms Control That Could Work (1985) / Albert Wohlstetter and Brian G. Chow -- V. Towards Discriminate Deterrence - Commentary: Towards Discriminate Deterrence / Stephen J. Lukasik - Strength, Interest and New Technologies (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter - How Much is Enough? How Mad is MAD? (1974) / Albert Wohlstetter - Bishops, Statesmen, and Other Strategists on the Bombing of Innocents (1983) / Albert Wohlstetter - Connecting the Elements of the Strategy: Excerpt from Discriminate Deterrence (1988) - The Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy - RPM, or Revolutions by the Minute (1992) / Albert Wohlstetter -- VI. Limiting and Managing New Risks - Commentary: Strategy as a Profession in the Future Security Environment / Andrew W. Marshall - End of Cold War? End of History and All War?: Excerpt from an Outline for a Memoir (1989) / Albert Wohlstetter - The Fax Shall Make You Free (1990) / Albert Wohlstetter - The Bitter End: The Case for Re-Intervention in Iraq (1991) / Albert Wohlstetter and Fred S. Hoffman - What the West Must Do in Bosnia: An Open Letter to President Clinton (1993) / Albert Wohlstetter and Margaret Thatcher - Boris Yeltsin as Abraham Lincoln? (1995) / Albert Wohlstetter.

ISBN

• 1584873701
• 9781584873709

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library