The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy - Rilegato

Freedman, Lawrence

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ISBN 10: 0333652983 ISBN 13: 9780333652985

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Riassunto

First published twenty years ago, Lawrence Freedman's Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, taking the story to contemporary arguments about missile defence.

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L'autore:

LAWRENCE FREEDMAN is Professor of War Studies and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College, London. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Gulf Conflict (with Efraim Karsh) and Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. In 1997 he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign.

Contenuti:

Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: FIRST AND SECOND THOUGHTS
The Arrival of the Bomb
Offence and Defence
Aggression and Retaliation
PART II: TOWARDS A POLICY OF DETERRENCE
Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly
Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate
Massive Retaliation
PART III: LIMITED WAR
Limited Objectives
Limited Means
PART IV: THE FEAR OF SUPRISE ATTACK
The Importance of Being First
Sputniks and the Soviet Threat
The Technological Arms Race
PART V: THE STRATEGY OF STABLE CONFLICT
The Formal Strategists
Arms Control
Bargaining and Escalation
PART VI: FROM COUNTER-FORCE TO ASSURED DESTRUCTION
City-Avoidance
Assured Destruction
The Soviet Approach to Deterrence
The Chinese Connection
PART VII: THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION
A Conventional Defence for Europe
The European Nuclear Option (i) Anglo-Saxon Views
The European Nuclear Option (ii) French and German Views
PART VIII: RETREAT FROM ASSURED DESTRUCTION
Military-Industrial Complexities
The Consensus Undermined
Parity
Selective Options
The Reagan Administration and the Great Nuclear Debate
PART IX: AFTER THE COLD WAR
The Threat Evaporates
Rogues and Rebels
The Threat Evaporates
The Second Nuclear Age
Can There be a Nuclear Strategy?
Notes
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0333652983
• ISBN 13: 9780333652985
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 566