Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy

ISBN-13: 9780714632360 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 136 str.

R. Kolkowicz;Kolkowicz Roman; Roman Kokowicz

Opis

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 whiz kids and the wizards of Armageddon have not lived up to expectations.

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction: the rise and decline of deterrence doctrine, Roman Kolkowicz. Part 2 Nuclear deterrence -critical assessments: the not-quite-absolute weapon -deterrence and the legacy of Bernard Brodie, Gregg Herken; deterrence - the problem - not the solution, Michael MacGwire; nuclear strategy - can there be a happy ending? Fred Charles Ikle. Part 3 European perspectives: nuclear deterrence and European security - towards a not so happy ending? Pierre Lellouche; the reception of American deterrence theory in the Federal republic of Germany and th German nuclear debate of th e1950s,Wolfgang Heisenberg; after NATO's dual track decision of 1979 - where do we go from here? Christian Hacke. Part 4 Arms control and nuclear strategy: deterrence and arms control, George Rathjens; arms and races and instability, Michael Intriligator, Dagobert Brito.

O autorze

Roman Kolkowicz