The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

Lawrence Freedman. Previous Ed.: 1981. Includes Bibliography And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Arrival of the Bomb....Pages 3-21 Offence and Defence....Pages 22-33 Aggression and Retaliation....Pages 34-44 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly....Pages 47-62 Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate....Pages 63-75 Massive Retaliation....Pages 76-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 Limited Objectives....Pages 93-105 Limited Means....Pages 106-119 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 The Importance of Being First....Pages 123-138 Sputniks and the Soviet Threat....Pages 139-154 The Technological Arms Race....Pages 155-171 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 The Formal Strategists....Pages 175-189 Arms Control....Pages 190-207 Bargaining and Escalation....Pages 208-223 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 City-Avoidance....Pages 227-244 Assured Destruction....Pages 245-256 The Soviet Approach to Deterrence....Pages 257-272 The Chinese Connection....Pages 273-282 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 A Conventional Defence for Europe....Pages 285-302 The European Nuclear Option....Pages 303-312 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 The European Nuclear Option....Pages 313-329 Front Matter....Pages 331-331 Military—Industrial Complexities....Pages 333-343 The Consensus Undermined....Pages 344-358 Parity....Pages 359-371 Selective Options....Pages 372-395 The Reagan Administration and the Great Nuclear Debate....Pages 396-426 Conclusion....Pages 427-433 Back Matter....Pages 434-522 This is an examination of the public and academic debates surrounding nuclear strategy focusing on the USA. The author offers a detailed and critical history of attempts to construct a plausible nuclear strategy. This edition has been updated to include policy developments in the 1980s. '...Lawrence Freedman has provided a masterly account of the evolution of nuclear strategic thought which is steeped in scholarship, elegantly written, and comprehensive in scope.' Edward M.Spiers, Times Higher Education Supplement