The evolution of nuclear strategy./ Lawrence Freedman.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Palgrave macmillian, 2019Edition: 4th edDescription: xiv, 786 p. : 21cmISBN: 9781137573490LOC classification: U263. F698Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY Reference | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | U263. F698 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 9140/589/22 |
Includes bibliography 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 defences -- Soviet doctrine from Benzhnev to Gorbachev -- The end of the cold war -- Mutual assured safety -- Elimination or maginalization -- The second nuclear age -- The nuclear war on terror -- Proliferation: the middle east and the pacific -- The return of great power politics -- Primary and maximum deterrence -- Can there be a nuclear strategy? -- Bibliography -- Index.
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