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Nuclear weapons and American grand strategy /

The world first confronted the power of nuclear weapons when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The global threat of these weapons deepened in the following decades as more advanced weapons, aggressive strategies, and new nuclear powers emerged. Ever sin...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gavin, Francis J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2020]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Information
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • History and the Unanswered Questions of the Nuclear Age
  • Fixing the Franchise: The Ivory Tower-Policy Gap
  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Nuclear Weapons
  • Strategies of Inhibition
  • NATO's Radical Response to the Nuclear Revolution
  • Beyond Deterrence
  • The History of What Did Not Happen
  • Deterring while Disarming
  • Rethinking Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Back Cover