The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, 18.7.2003 - 566 sivua
First published twenty years ago, Lawrence Freedman's 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 rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, taking the story to contemporary arguments about missile defence.
 

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The Arrival of the Bomb
3
The persistence of the doctrine of strategic bombardment
21
The possibility of defence
28
Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly
45
Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate
60
Massive Retaliation
72
Limited Objectives
89
Limited Means
101
Assured Destruction
232
The Soviet Approach to Deterrence
243
The Chinese Connection
258
A Conventional Defence for Europe
271
i AngloSaxon Views
288
ii French
298
MilitaryIndustrial Complexities
317
The Consensus Undermined
328

The Importance of Being First
117
Sputniks and the Soviet Threat
131
The Technological Arms Race
146
The Formal Strategists
165
Arms Control
179
Bargaining and Escalation
196
CityAvoidance
215
Parity
342
Selective Options
355
The Reagan Administration
378
The Threat Evaporates
407
The Second Nuclear Age
435
Can there be a Nuclear Strategy?
458
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LAWRENCE FREEDMAN is Professor of War Studies and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College, London. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Gulf Conflict (with Efraim Karsh) and Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. In 1997 he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign.

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