LEADER 03344nam 22005533u 450 001 9910787872103321 005 20230601014150.0 010 $a0-8047-9091-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804790918 035 $a(CKB)2670000000545070 035 $a(EBL)1642553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1642553 035 $a(DE-B1597)564030 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804790918 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930324 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000545070 100 $a20140331d2014|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century$b[electronic resource] 210 $aPalo Alto $cStanford University Press$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 1 $aStanford security studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8912-6 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a6. 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 330 $aThe 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