LEADER 03974nam 2200721 450 001 9910464956903321 005 20211013215146.0 010 $a0-8122-0906-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209068 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072405 035 $a(OCoLC)868199428 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10808886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001179583 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11794212 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001179583 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11181712 035 $a(PQKB)11055474 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442302 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27232 035 $a(DE-B1597)449775 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209068 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10808886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682542 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072405 100 $a20130702h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNo use $enuclear weapons and U.S. national security /$fThomas M. Nichols 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-322-51260-4 311 0 $a0-8122-4566-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Why Nuclear Weapons Still Matter --$t1. Nuclear Strategy, 1950?1990: The Search for Meaning --$t2. Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War: Promise and Failure --$t3. The Return of Minimum Deterrence --$t4. Small States and Nuclear War --$tConclusion. The Price of Nuclear Peace --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aFor more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, the Chinese, and other major nuclear powers, continue to retain a deep faith in the political and military value of nuclear force, and this belief remains enshrined at the center of U.S. defense policy regardless of the radical changes that have taken place in international politics. In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols offers a lucid, accessible reexamination of the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy. Nichols explains why strategies built for the Cold War have survived into the twenty-first century, and he illustrates how America's nearly unshakable belief in the utility of nuclear arms has hindered U.S. and international attempts to slow the nuclear programs of volatile regimes in North Korea and Iran. From a solid historical foundation, Nichols makes the compelling argument that to end the danger of worldwide nuclear holocaust, the United States must take the lead in abandoning unrealistic threats of nuclear force and then create a new and more stable approach to deterrence for the twenty-first century. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aNuclear weapons$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aNational security$zUnited States 606 $aNuclear disarmament$zUnited States 606 $aSecurity, International 607 $aUnited States$xMilitary policy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNuclear weapons$xGovernment policy 615 0$aNational security 615 0$aNuclear disarmament 615 0$aSecurity, International. 676 $a355.02/170973 700 $aNichols$b Thomas M.$f1960-$0679035 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464956903321 996 $aNo use$92470779 997 $aUNINA