02877nam 22006374a 450 991045124500332120200520144314.01-280-36106-997866103610690-203-08737-2(CKB)1000000000252291(EBL)256948(OCoLC)475972320(SSID)ssj0000212733(PQKBManifestationID)11173618(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212733(PQKBWorkID)10139754(PQKB)10380085(MiAaPQ)EBC256948(Au-PeEL)EBL256948(CaPaEBR)ebr10163406(CaONFJC)MIL36106(OCoLC)437164575(EXLCZ)99100000000025229120050304d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNuclear weapons and strategy[electronic resource] U.S. nuclear policy for the twenty-first century /Stephen J. CimbalaAbingdon [England] ;New York Routledge20061 online resource (145 p.)Contemporary security studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-65050-X 0-415-70199-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [114]-119) and index.Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Technology and Deterrence in the New World Order; 2 Can Missile Defenses Overturn Deterrence?; 3 Conventionalizing U.S. and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces; 4 Nuclear Proliferation and Causal Explanation; 5 Nuclear Proliferation in Asia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexNuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence. This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush administration, having deposed the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, now points to a new nuclear ""Axis of Evil"": Iran and North Korea. These nations and other rogue states, as well as terrorists, may pose key threats because they are ""beyond deterrence"", which was based on the credible fContemporary security studies.Nuclear warfareWorld politics21st centuryUnited StatesMilitary policyElectronic books.Nuclear warfare.World politics355.02/17/0973Cimbala Stephen J846069MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451245003321Nuclear weapons and strategy2183430UNINA