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  • Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age

    de Keith B. Payne ...
    Keith Payne begins by asking, "Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's view, is that such policies will almost assuredly fail in the Second Nuclear Age—a period in which direct nuclear threat ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction

    de Keith B. Payne ...
    In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured British policy accordingly. This plan was a failure, chiefly because Hitler was not a statesman who would ultimately conform to familiar norms. Chamberlain's policy was doomed because he had greatly misjudged Hitler's basic beliefs and thus his behavior. U ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Missile Defense In The 21st Century: Protection Against Limited Threats

    Including Lessons From The Gulf War

    de Keith B. Payne ...
    This book examines the implications of emerging security environment for missile defense. It identifies the lessons concerning the questions provided by the Gulf War, focusing on the redirection of the Strategic Defense Initiative towards a capability for global protection against limited strikes. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Nuclear Deterrence In U.s.-soviet Relations

    de Keith B. Payne ...
    This book critically examines U.S. attempts to establish a nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union and offers new approaches to dealing with the changing strategic environment. Dr. Payne maintains that the most influential theories of nuclear deterrence--Assured Vulnerability and Flexible Targeting—are unrealistic, given Soviet foreign policy and attitudes toward nuclear war, and no longer ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence

    de Keith B. Payne, James Schlesinger ...
    The National Institute for Public Policy’s new book, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, is the first of its kind. Dr. Keith Payne, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and an unparalleled bipartisan group of senior civilian and military experts critically examine eight basic assumptions of Minimum Deterrence against available evidence. In general, Minimum Deterrence does not fare ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Understanding Deterrence

    Edición de Keith B. Payne ...
    For decades, the rational actor model served as the preferred guide for U.S. deterrence policy. It has been a convenient and comforting guide because it requires little detailed knowledge of an opponent’s unique decision-making process and yet typically provides confident generalizations about how deterrence works. The model tends to postulate common decision-making parameters across the globe to ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Laser Weapons in Space

    Policy and Doctrine

    Edición de Keith B. Payne ...
    This is the first comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the potential development by the United States of a space-based laser weapons program. The authors assess the implications of arms control agreements for a satellite-based laser program, including discussions of recent Soviet space-related arms control initiatives and the forthcoming ABM treaty review. They outline likely Soviet ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • Nuclear Deterrence in a Multipolar World

    The U.S., Russia and Security Challenges

    de Stephen Cimbala ...
    The view that America and Russia have burned their candles on security cooperation with respect to nuclear weapons is simply mistaken. This timely study identifies twelve themes or issue areas that must be addressed by the United States and Russia if they are to provide shared, successful leadership in the management of nuclear world order. Designed as supplementary reading in upper division and ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The New Nuclear Disorder

    Challenges to Deterrence and Strategy

    de Stephen J. Cimbala ...
    In the twenty-first century, the United States confronts an international system of great complexity and shifting security challenges. Among these challenges are those posed by nuclear weapons. Instead of becoming obsolete or being marginalized by the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, nuclear weapons have become more important to present and future international stability and ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Fire In the East

    The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age

    de Paul Bracken ...

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  • The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

    de Brad Roberts ...
    "An excellent contribution to the debate on the future role of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence in American foreign policy." ― Contemporary Security PolicyThis book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear ... Leer más

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  • No Use

    Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security

    de Thomas M. Nichols ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    For 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, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD