The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy: New, Updated and Completely Revised

ISBN-13: 9781137573490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 786 str.

Jeffrey Michaels

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

1. The Arrival of the Bomb

2. The Strategy of Hiroshima

3. Offence and Defence

4. Aggression and Retaliation

5. Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly

6. Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate

7. Massive Retaliation

8. Limited Objectives

9. Limited Means

10. The Importance of Being First

11. Sputnik and the Soviet Threat

12. Soviet Strategy after Stalin

13. The Technological Arms Race

14. New Sources of Strategy

15. The Strategy of Stable Conflict

16. Disarmament to Arms Control

17. Operational Nuclear Strategy

18. Khrushchev’s Second-Best Deterrent

19. Defending Europe

20. No Cities

21. Assured Destruction

22. Britain’s ‘Independent’ Nuclear Deterrent

23. France and the Credibility of Nuclear Guarantees

24. A NATO Nuclear Force

25. The Unthinkable Weapon

26. China's Paper Tiger

27. The Soviet Approach to Deterrence

28. The McNamara Legacy

29. Salt, Parity and the Critique Of Mad

30. Actions and Reactions

31. Selective Options

32. ICBM Vulnerability

33. The Rise of Anti-Nuclear Protest

34. Strategic Defences

35. Soviet Doctrine from Brezhnev to Gorbachev

36. The End of the Cold War

37. Mutual Assured Safety

38. Elimination or Marginalization

39. The Second Nuclear Age

40. The Nuclear War on Terror

41. Proliferation: The Middle East and the Pacific

42. The Return of Great Power Politics

43. Primacy and Maximum Deterrence

44. Can There Be A Nuclear Strategy?

O autorze

Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, UK. He was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997 and was a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War. His most recent books include Strategy: A History (2015) and The Future of War: A History (2017).

Jeffrey Michaels is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, UK

Blurb

“The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy quickly established itself as a classic when it first appeared in 1981. This edition makes it even better, incorporating as it does new material about the Cold War and up-dating to include subsequent developments. Filled with insights and penetrating analysis, this volume is truly indispensable.”

Robert Jervis, Author of How Statesmen Think

 

"Freedman and Michaels have written a thorough and thought-provoking guide to nuclear strategy. The authors analyze the causes of both wise and unwise strategic decisions in the past and thereby shine a bright light on dilemmas we face in our common nuclear future."

Scott Sagan, Stanford University, USA

“With its comprehensive coverage, clear and direct language, and judicious summaries of a vast literature, this new and wholly revised edition of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy will be essential reading for any student of nuclear history, strategic studies, or contemporary international relations.”

Matthew Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, and covering all nuclear powers.

Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, UK. He was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997 and was a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War. His most recent books include Strategy: A History (2015) and The Future of War: A History (2017).

Jeffrey Michaels is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, UK