1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392644903316

Autore

Maynwaringe Everard <1628-1699?>

Titolo

Useful discoveries [[electronic resource] ] : and practical observations, in some late remarkable cures of the scurvy. By E. Maynwaringe, Dr. in Physick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by A.M. for T. Basset under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-Sreet [sic], 1668

Descrizione fisica

[12], 55 [i.e. 48] p

Soggetti

Medicine

Diseases - Causes and theories of causation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Page 48 misnumbered 55.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694546403321

Autore

Daniel Donald C (Donald Charles), <1944->

Titolo

NATO technology [[electronic resource] ] : from gap to divergence? / / by Donald C. Daniel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.] : , : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, , [2004]

Collana

Defense horizons ; ; no. 42

Soggetti

Military research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 2, 2005).

"July 2004."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787207703321

Autore

Payne Keith B.

Titolo

Deterrence in the second nuclear age / / Keith B. Payne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

0-8131-0895-0

0-8131-4843-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/7

Soggetti

Deterrence (Strategy)

World politics - 1989-

United States Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. New Environment, New Requirement; Chapter 3. The Valor of Ignorance; Chapter 4. Success, Motivation, Mistakes, and Uncertainty; Chapter 5. Reconsidering the Hubris of Past and Present; Chapter 6. Summary and Conclusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Keith Payne begins by asking, ""Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?"" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's view, is that such policies will almost assuredly fail in the Second Nuclear Age -- a period in which direct nuclear threat between superpowers has been replaced by threats posed by regional ""rogue"" powers newly armed with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.The fundamental problem with deterrence theory is th