03974nam 2200721 450 991046495690332120211013215146.00-8122-0906-010.9783/9780812209068(CKB)3710000000072405(OCoLC)868199428(CaPaEBR)ebrary10808886(SSID)ssj0001179583(PQKBManifestationID)11794212(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001179583(PQKBWorkID)11181712(PQKB)11055474(MiAaPQ)EBC3442302(MdBmJHUP)muse27232(DE-B1597)449775(DE-B1597)9780812209068(Au-PeEL)EBL3442302(CaPaEBR)ebr10808886(CaONFJC)MIL682542(EXLCZ)99371000000007240520130702h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrNo use nuclear weapons and U.S. national security /Thomas M. NicholsFirst edition.Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (232 p.)Haney Foundation SeriesIncludes index.1-322-51260-4 0-8122-4566-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction. Why Nuclear Weapons Still Matter --1. Nuclear Strategy, 1950–1990: The Search for Meaning --2. Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War: Promise and Failure --3. The Return of Minimum Deterrence --4. Small States and Nuclear War --Conclusion. The Price of Nuclear Peace --Notes --IndexFor more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, the Chinese, and other major nuclear powers, continue to retain a deep faith in the political and military value of nuclear force, and this belief remains enshrined at the center of U.S. defense policy regardless of the radical changes that have taken place in international politics. In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols offers a lucid, accessible reexamination of the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy. Nichols explains why strategies built for the Cold War have survived into the twenty-first century, and he illustrates how America's nearly unshakable belief in the utility of nuclear arms has hindered U.S. and international attempts to slow the nuclear programs of volatile regimes in North Korea and Iran. From a solid historical foundation, Nichols makes the compelling argument that to end the danger of worldwide nuclear holocaust, the United States must take the lead in abandoning unrealistic threats of nuclear force and then create a new and more stable approach to deterrence for the twenty-first century.Haney Foundation series.Nuclear weaponsGovernment policyUnited StatesNational securityUnited StatesNuclear disarmamentUnited StatesSecurity, InternationalUnited StatesMilitary policyElectronic books.Nuclear weaponsGovernment policyNational securityNuclear disarmamentSecurity, International.355.02/170973Nichols Thomas M.1960-679035MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464956903321No use2470779UNINA