For nearly fifty years, including the decade and a half since the end of the Cold War, deterrence has remained the central nuclear arms control policy between the United States, Russia, and other principal nuclear powers. The question today is: Has the concept of deterrence outlived its usefulness? In Beyond Nuclear Deterrence, two of Russia's top nonproliferation and international security experts, Alexei Arbatov and Vladimir Dvorkin, critically assess the history of deterrence as it emerged between the Soviet Union and the U.S. and evolved through the Cold War to include an expanding...
For nearly fifty years, including the decade and a half since the end of the Cold War, deterrence has remained the central nuclear arms control pol...
In this era of globalization, the world is facing a host of challenging security problems--from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to international terrorism to accelerating climate change to energy security--that cannot be resolved unilaterally, especially through the unilateral use of military force. One key issue that requires urgent global attention is literally "out of this world" the military use of outer space.
This collection of essays by leading Russian experts analyzes the current military use of outer space. The book describes the space weapons programs of...
In this era of globalization, the world is facing a host of challenging security problems--from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to...