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Real-World Nuclear Deterrence - The Making of International Strategy (Hardcover)
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Real-World Nuclear Deterrence - The Making of International Strategy (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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The threat of nuclear weapons did not fade away with the collapse
of the Soviet Union. Rather, the geopolitical disorders of the
post-Cold War era and the rise of global terrorism have ensured
that they remain conspicuously present on the world stage as a
serious international concern. With the eight or nine nuclear
powers maintaining about 27,000 nuclear weapons in their arsenals
to this day, it is clear that they are here to stay for the
foreseeable future. The primary mission of these nuclear forces has
been and remains deterrence. Using plain language rather than
policy jargon, this historically focused book shows how nuclear
deterrence has worked rather than how it should. It then shows how
the growing threat of nuclear proliferation threatens to create a
far more complicated international situation largely because of the
attendant proliferation of state nuclear deterrents. By drawing on
a wide array of new sources from international archives and the
latest in international scholarship, Coleman and Siracusa put some
of the most important and enduring problems of nuclear deterrence
over the past sixty years into global context. Nuclear deterrence
in the real world often operates very differently from how it
should according to the prevailing theories, and Coleman and
Siracusa take a fresh look at how nuclear weapons policy has been
made, finding that it often has had surprisingly little to do with
what works and what does not. By studying in depth how governments
here and abroad have confronted and dealt with some of the most
important issues in nuclear weapons policy, for example, "How many
nuclear weapons are enough?" and "What is it that will deter?" they
find that the making ofnuclear weapons policy is a complex, fluid
bargaining process subject to the tides of politics, budgets,
threat perception, ideology, technology, parochial service
rivalries, flawed information, and sometimes just plain wishful
thinking.
General
Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Praeger Security International |
Release date: |
June 2006 |
First published: |
June 2006 |
Authors: |
David G Coleman
• Joseph M. Siracusa
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Dimensions: |
163 x 242 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
184 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-275-98098-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Warfare & defence >
General
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LSN: |
0-275-98098-7 |
Barcode: |
9780275980986 |
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