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Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (Hardcover)
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Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having
shaken core assumptions of U.S. defense policy, it is time to
reassess basic questions of American nuclear strategy and force
requirements. In a comprehensive analysis of these issues, Charles
Glaser argues that even before the recent easing of tension with
the Soviet Union, the United States should have revised its nuclear
strategy, rejecting deterrent threats that require the ability to
destroy Soviet nuclear forces and forgoing entirely efforts to
limit damage if all-out nuclear war occurs. Changes in the Soviet
Union, suggests Glaser, may be best viewed as creating an
opportunity to make revisions that are more than twenty years
overdue. Glaser's provocative work is organized in three parts.
"The Questions behind the Questions" evaluates the basic factual
and theoretical disputes that underlie disagreements about U.S.
nuclear weapons policy. "Alternative Nuclear Worlds" compares
"mutual assured destruction capabilities" (MAD)--a world in which
both superpowers' societies are highly vulnerable to nuclear
retaliation--to the basic alternatives: mutual perfect defenses,
U.S. superiority, and nuclear disarmament. Would any basic
alternatives be preferable to MAD? Drawing on the earlier sections
of the book, "Decisions in MAD" addresses key choices facing
American decision makers. Originally published in 1990. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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