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As part of its general rethinking of America's global strategy, the Bush Administration initiated a re-examination of America's nuclear doctrine that has generated considerable controversy with its focus on maintaining a reliance on nuclear weapons and potentially increasing willingness to use them. Here a group of leading strategic analysts examine the background to the re-evaluation, issues of implementation and potential implications internationally.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Context
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Implementing the NPR
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Controlling the Strike Complex
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International Reactions
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Reviews
'This compendium of expertise has no equal and will readily find its utility on student reading lists and the shelves of practitioners, commentators and critics'. - Glen M. Segell, Institute of Security Policy, UK
'This volume...highlights the path-breaking character of the NPR, without embracing it as a panacea or dismissing it as a dangerous folly. The result is a useful stimulus to renewed thinking about the requirements of nuclear security.' - Brad Roberts, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA
'This volume contains both sympathetic analyses and informed critiques of the Bush Administration's nuclear weapons policies. The authors pierce the fog of confusion that has surrounded nuclear doctrine and shed important new light on changes in U.S. strategic planning and its impact on other nations around the globe.' - Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
JAMES J. WIRTZ is in the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, USA.
JEFFREY A. LARSEN works at the Larsen Consulting Group.
JEFFREY A. LARSEN works at the Larsen Consulting Group.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nuclear Transformation
Book Subtitle: The New Nuclear U.S. Doctrine
Editors: James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey A. Larsen
Series Title: Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07838-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6904-0Published: 15 November 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07838-4Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-7130
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7149
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 289
Topics: Terrorism and Political Violence, International Relations, Military and Defence Studies, Political Science