Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy
Author | : Roman Kolkowicz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2005-08-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135779894 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135779899 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy written by Roman Kolkowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear strategy and deterrence in their "golden age"--A nostalgically defined period sometime in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s - promised to harness and control the nuclear Moloch; hopes were high that the civilian strategists flooding into Washington would succeed in designing a new science of war that would safeguard national security, provide a stable international environment, and develop a rational decision-making process for the management of national interests in a hostile nuclear world. Three decades later, it is a commonplace that the erstwhile promises and pretensions of the nuclear "w