On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Larsen Jeffrey
• Pubblicazione: Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.02/17; 355.0217
• Soggetto topico: Limited war; Nuclear warfare; United States -- Military policy
• Altri autori: KartchnerKerry
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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 ; 6. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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</I
• Titolo autorizzato: On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century
• ISBN: 0-8047-9091-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825134903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Stanford security studies