Strategy and Nuclear Deterrence

Steven E. Miller

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780691611990, 9780691639932
• eBook ISBN: 9781400856121
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This book of selections from the distinguished journal International Security speaks to the most important question of our age: the deterrence of nuclear war.

Originally published in 1985.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• The Contributors
• Preface, Steven E. Miller
• Deterrence and Deterrence Failure
• The Development of Nuclear Strategy, Bernard Brodie
• Nuclear Strategy: A Case for a Theory of Victory, Colin Gray
• Deterrence and Perception, Robert Jervis
• Inadvertent Nuclear War? Escalation and NATO's Northern Flank, Barry R. Posen
• The Evolution of American Strategy
• The Origins of Overkill: Nuclear Weapons and American Strategy, 1945-1960, David Alan Rosenberg
• U.S. Strategic Nuclear Concepts in the 1970s. The Search for Sufficiently Equivalent Countervailing Parity, Warner R. Schilling
• U.S. Strategic Forces: How Would They Be Used?, Desmond Ball
• The Countervailing Strategy, Walter Slocombe
• The Political Implications of Nuclear Weapons
• The Political Potential of Equivalence, Benjamin S. Lambeth
• The Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons: The 1973 Middle East Crisis, Barry Blechman and Douglas Hart