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Condizione: very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 128, wraps, footnotes, figures, tables, acronyms, references. Prepared for the U.S. Air Force, Project Air Force. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has reexamined its basic assumptions about foreign policy and instruments of national security policy. This study examines thepossible roles of nuclear weapons in contemporary U.S. national security policy.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xxiv, 128 pages. Acronyms. Footnotes. Tables. Figures. References. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Corner of page 33/34 creased. Glenn Buchan was the Associate Program Director for C3I/Space systems in Project AIR FORCE. He joined RAND as a research staff member in the Defense Planning and Analysis Department in 1984. His research has spanned a wide range of defense topics. In the area of strategic and nuclear planning, he has constructed war plans and evaluated force interactions, studied arms control verification issues and implications of various weapon systems on arms control, and analyzed Soviet strategy. His research has also focused on nuclear and conventional uses of heavy bombers. He led a major RAND study on the future structure of the U.S. heavy bomber force, focusing heavily on a range of potential applications for the B-2 bomber. The United States has been reexamining its basic assumptions about foreign policy and various instruments of national security policy to define its future needs. The defining characteristic of nuclear weapons makes them unmatched as terror weapons and potentially more effective than any other type of weapon in strictly military terms (i.e., destroying targets). Moreover, the ability to produce nuclear weapons with relatively large yields in very small packages can dramatically increase their potential military value. Accordingly, nuclear weapons offer a range of strategic and tactical advantages to those countries that possess them. They can be used as instruments to ? coerce enemies by threat or actual use ? deter enemies from a range of actions by threat of punishment ? offset an imbalance of conventional forces ? fight a large-scale war ? destroy specific critical installations ? enhance national prestige and win a "place at the table" in the international arena. The United States has used its nuclear forces for most of those purposes.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xvii, [1], 83, [3] pages. Footnotes. Tables. Figure. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Glenn Buchan was the Associate Program Director for C3I/Space systems in Project AIR FORCE. He joined RAND as a research staff member in the Defense Planning and Analysis Department in 1984. His research has spanned a wide range of defense topics. In the area of strategic and nuclear planning, he has constructed war plans and evaluated force interactions, studied arms control verification issues and implications of various weapon systems on arms control, and analyzed Soviet strategy. His research has also focused on nuclear and conventional uses of heavy bombers. He led a major RAND study on the future structure of the U.S. heavy bomber force, focusing heavily on a range of potential applications for the B-2 bomber. The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact mandates fundamentally rethinking the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. military and foreign policy. This monograph represents a prescriptive and judgmental examination of U.S. options for revising its nuclear strategy and force structure in the post-Cold War era. The author argues that the United States should become less dependent upon nuclear weapons as instruments of policy. The challenge is to encourage nuclear forces to "wither away" while maintaining nuclear capability should the need arise. This study begins with a discussion of U.S. foreign policy objectives and how nuclear weapons are likely to fit in. It then focuses on the various "nuclear futures" that could evolve and how the United States ought to operate and employ nuclear forces in the future. Finally, it discusses the kind of nuclear forces the U.S. ought to maintain for the foreseeable future and how its overall nuclear strategy should develop.

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