On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787872103321
• Autore: Larsen Jeffrey
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014
• ISBN: 0-8047-9091-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Collana: Stanford security studies
• Altri autori (Persone): KartchnerKerry
• Disciplina: 355.02/17; 355.0217
• Soggetti: Limited war; Nuclear warfare; United States -- Military policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Map; Foreword - Thomas C. Schelling; Contributors; Preface - Jeffrey A. Larsen and Kerry M. Kartchner; Part I: Assessing the History of L imited Nuclear War; 1. Limited War and the Advent of Nuclear Weapons - Jeffrey A. Larsen; 2. The Origins of Limited Nuclear War Theory - Andrew L. Ross; 3. The United States and Discriminate Nuclear Options in the Cold War - Elbridge A. Colby; 4. Post-Cold War US Nuclear Strategy - Paul I. Bernstein; Part II: Managing the Risk of Nuclear War in the 21st Century; 5. The Emerging Nuclear Landscape - Paul I. Bernstein; 6. Future Scenarios of Limited Nuclear Conflict - Thomas G. Mahnken7. Escalation to Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century - Kerry M. Kartchner and Michael S. Gerson; 8. The End of the Nuclear Taboo? - George H. Quester; 9. Deterrence, Crisis Management, and Nuclear War Termination - Schuyler Foerster; Part III: Confronting the Challenges of Nuclear War in the 21st Century; 10. On US Preparedness for Limited Nuclear War - Bruce W. Bennett; 11. Limited Nuclear Conflict and the American Way of War - James M. Smith; 12. Limited Nuclear War Reconsidered - James J. Wirtz; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer ""rogue"" states in the international system. The ; authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when one of these states makes the conscious decision that using a nuclear weapon against the United States, its allies, or forward deployed forces in the context of a crisis or a regional conventional conflict may be in its interests. They assert that we are unprepared for these types of limited</I