No use : nuclear weapons and U.S. national security

No use : nuclear weapons and U.S. national security / Thomas M. Nichols.

In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols examines the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy, ultimately arguing that this belief in the utility of nuclear force is misguided and dangerously obsolete.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nichols, Thomas M., 1960- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons > Government policy > United States.
National security > United States.
Nuclear disarmament > United States.
Security, International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
Military policy
National security
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear weapons > Government policy
Security, International
United States > Military policy.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why nuclear weapons still matter
  • Nuclear strategy, 1950-1990: the search for meaning
  • Nuclear weapons after the Cold War: promise and failure
  • The return of minimum deterrence
  • Small states and nuclear war
  • Conclusion: the price of nuclear peace.

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