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The logic of American nuclear strategy : why strategic superiority matters /

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What kind of nuclear strategy and posture does the United States need to defend itself and its allies? According to a longstanding, academic conventional wisdom, the answer to this question is straightforward. The United States needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and respond with a d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kroenig, Matthew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Nuclear warfare > United States.
Nuclear weapons > Government policy > United States.
United States > Military policy.
Strategic forces > United States.
Strategy.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The advantages of nuclear advantages
  • Toward a new theory of nuclear deterrence:
  • The superiority-brinkmanship synthesis theory
  • Nuclear war outcomes
  • The correlates of nuclear crisis outcomes
  • The mechanisms of nuclear crisis outcomes
  • Nuclear deterrence and compellence
  • Part 2. The disadvantages of nuclear advantages?
  • Strategic stability
  • Arms races
  • Nonproliferation
  • The defense budget
  • Conclusion.