Research Catalog

Title

From nuclear military strategy to a world without war : a history and a proposal / Roger Hilsman.

Author

Hilsman, Roger.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Columbia University. Institute of War and Peace Studies.
• Columbia University. School of International and Public Affairs.

Description

xvi, 312 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Sooner or later, if the world keeps following its current course, there will be a nuclear war. Roger Hilsman, who played a significant role during the Cuban Missile Crisis, is convinced that the only way to prevent an eventual nuclear conflict is to abolish war itself. This study examines and critiques all of the various proposals to date for incorporating nuclear weapons into strategic doctrine and concludes that these efforts have failed. Plans for abolishing only nuclear weapons are, according to Hilsman, good intentioned but ill-advised attempts to rehabilitate war. Instead, he proposes a gradual transition to world government, which will perform the traditional social and political functions that were in the past served only by war."--Jacket.

Subject

• Nuclear warfare
• International organization
• nuclear wars
• Military policy
• Militär
• Strategie
• Kernwaffe
• Atomare Abrüstung
• Internationale Politik
• Atomkrieg
• Militärpolitik
• Kernwapenpolitiek
• Vrede
• International agencies
• Nuclear weapons
• Disarmament
• United States > Military policy
• United States
• USA

Note

• "This book was prepared under the sponsorship of the Institute of War and Peace Studies of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. The First Attempts at Nuclear Strategy. 1. The Manhattan Project and Early Strategic Thinking. 2. Nuclear Strategy and the Attack on Korea. 3. New Look, Massive Retaliation, and Flexible Response. 4. The H-Bomb and the Balance of Terror. 5. The Debate on Nuclear Strategy -- pt. II. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Case Study of Nuclear Strategy. 6. The Crisis. 7. The Significance -- pt. III. Post-Crisis Attempts at a Nuclear Strategy. 8. McNamara II, the Schlesinger Doctrine, and Star Wars. 9. No First Use, Counterforce, and MAD as a Strategy. 10. The Breakup of the Soviet Union and the Bush -- Yeltsin Agreement -- pt. IV. The World Turned Upside Down. 11. Developments in Weapons. 12. The Members of the Nuclear Club and Their Arms.

ISBN

• 0275962423
• 9780275962425

LCCN

98046801

OCLC

• ocm40218736
• 40218736
• SCSB-9554368

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library