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Strategy in the second nuclear age : power, ambition, and the ultimate weapon /

A "second nuclear age" has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Yoshihara, Toshi (Editor ), Holmes, James R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes
  • After proliferation: deterrence theory and emerging nuclear powers / Joshua Rovner
  • South Africa's nuclear strategy: deterring "total onslaught" and "nuclear blackmail" in three stages / Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess
  • The future of Chinese nuclear strategy / Christopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, and Michael S. Chase
  • North Korea's nuclear weapons program: motivations, strategy, and doctrine / Terence Roehrig
  • Changing perceptions of extended deterrence in Japan / James L. Schoff
  • Thinking about the unthinkable: Tokyo's nuclear option / James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara
  • India's nuclear strategy / Anupam Srivastava and Seema Gahlaut
  • The future of India's undersea nuclear deterrent / Andrew C. Winner
  • Pakistan's nuclear posture: thinking about the unthinkable? / Timothy D. Hoyt
  • Regime type, nuclear reversals, and nuclear strategy: the ambiguous case of Iran / Scott A. Jones and James R. Holmes
  • Conclusion: thinking about strategy in the second nuclear age / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes.