No use : nuclear weapons and U.S. national security /
In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols examines the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy, ultimately arguing that this belief in the utility of nuclear force is misguided and dangerously obsolete.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©2014.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. |
| Col·lecció: | Haney Foundation series.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjkz3 |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction: why nuclear weapons still matter
- Nuclear strategy, 1950-1990: the search for meaning
- Nuclear weapons after the Cold War: promise and failure
- The return of minimum deterrence
- Small states and nuclear war
- Conclusion: the price of nuclear peace.