| Contents |
The arrival of the bomb -- The strategy of Hiroshima -- Offence and defence -- Aggression and retaliation -- Strategy for an atomic monopoly -- Strategy for an atomic stalemate -- Massive retaliation -- Limited objectives -- Limited means -- The importance of being first -- Sputnik and the Soviet threat -- Soviet strategy after Stalin -- The technological arms race -- New sources of strategy -- The strategy of stable conflict -- Disarmament to arms control -- Operational nuclear strategy -- Khrushchev's second-best deterrent -- Defending Europe -- No cities -- Assured destruction -- Britain's 'independent' nuclear deterrent -- France and the credibility of nuclear guarantees -- A NATO nuclear force -- The unthinkable weapon -- China's paper tiger -- The Soviet approach to deterrence -- The McNamara legacy -- SALT, parity and the critique of MAD -- Actions and reactions -- Selective options -- ICBM vulnerability -- The rise of anti-nuclear protest -- Strategic defenses -- Soviet doctrine from Brezhnev to Gorbachev -- The end of the Cold War -- Mutual assured safety -- Elimination or marginalization -- The second nuclear age -- The nuclear war on terror -- Proliferation : the Middle East and the Pacific -- The return of great power politics -- Primacy and maximum deterrence -- Can there be a nuclear strategy? |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Publisher's description |
| General note | New, updated and completely revised--Title page. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 679-734) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Ebook version : 9781137573506 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 113757349X |
| ISBN | 9781137573490 |
| ISBN | (PDF ebook) |
