Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance write by Richard K. Betts. This book was released on 1987. Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In numerous crises after World War II--Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East--the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese military action. On a few occasions the Soviet Union also engaged in nuclear saber-ratling. Using declassified documents and other sources, this volume examines those crises and compares the decisionmaking processes of leaders who considered nuclear threats with the commonly accepted logic of nuclear deterrence and coercion. Rejecting standard explanations of our leader's logic in these cases, Betts suggests that U.S. presidents were neither consciously blufffing when they made nuclear threats, nor prepared to face the consequences if their threats failed. The author also challenges the myth that the 1950s was a golden age of low vulberability for the nted Stateas and details how nuclear parity has, and has not, altered conditions that gave rise to nuclear blackmail in the past.
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy write by Todd S. Sechser. This book was released on 2017-02-02. Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? This book argues that they are useful for deterrence but not for offensive purposes.
Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance
Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance write by Richard K. Betts. This book was released on 2010-12-01. Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In numerous crises after World War II—Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East—the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese military action. On a few occasions the Soviet Union also engaged in nuclear saber-ratling. Using declassified documents and other sources, this volume examines those crises and compares the decisionmaking processes of leaders who considered nuclear threats with the commonly accepted logic of nuclear deterrence and coercion. Rejecting standard explanations of our leader's logic in these cases, Betts suggests that U.S. presidents were neither consciously blufffing when they made nuclear threats, nor prepared to face the consequences if their threats failed. The author also challenges the myth that the 1950s was a golden age of low vulberability for the United Stateas and details how nuclear parity has, and has not, altered conditions that gave rise to nuclear blackmail in the past.
Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy
Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy write by Charles L. Glaser. This book was released on 2016-04-19. Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.S. defense policy, it is time to reassess basic questions of American nuclear strategy and force requirements. In a comprehensive analysis of these issues, Charles Glaser argues that even before the recent easing of tension with the Soviet Union, the United States should have revised its nuclear strategy, rejecting deterrent threats that require the ability to destroy Soviet nuclear forces and forgoing entirely efforts to limit damage if all-out nuclear war occurs. Changes in the Soviet Union, suggests Glaser, may be best viewed as creating an opportunity to make revisions that are more than twenty years overdue. Glaser's provocative work is organized in three parts. "The Questions behind the Questions" evaluates the basic factual and theoretical disputes that underlie disagreements about U.S. nuclear weapons policy. "Alternative Nuclear Worlds" compares "mutual assured destruction capabilities" (MAD)--a world in which both superpowers' societies are highly vulnerable to nuclear retaliation--to the basic alternatives: mutual perfect defenses, U.S. superiority, and nuclear disarmament. Would any basic alternatives be preferable to MAD? Drawing on the earlier sections of the book, "Decisions in MAD" addresses key choices facing American decision makers. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Elusive Equivalence
Elusive Equivalence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elusive Equivalence write by Richard K. Betts. This book was released on 1983. Elusive Equivalence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
