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020 _a9780190849184
028 _a: Zafaa Books & Distributors
_b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.
_c: ZBD0685
_d: 31/03/2023
082 _a355.021 KRO
100 _aKroenig, Matthew.
245 _aThe logic of American nuclear strategy
_b: why strategic superiority matters.
_c/ Matthew Kroenig.
260 _a, NY, United States of America
_b: Oxford University Press, New York
_c, 2018.
300 _a xiv, 258 pages
_b : maps
_c ; 25 cm.
365 _b1268
505 _aPart 1. The advantages of nuclear advantages Toward a new theory of nuclear deterrence: The superiority-brinkmanship synthesis theory Nuclear war outcomes The correlates of nuclear crisis outcomes The mechanisms of nuclear crisis outcomes Nuclear deterrence and compellence Part 2. The disadvantages of nuclear advantages? Strategic stability Arms races Nonproliferation The defense budget Conclusion
520 _a"What kind of nuclear strategy and posture does the United States need to defend itself and its allies? According to a longstanding, academic conventional wisdom, the answer to this question is straightforward: the United States needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and respond with a devastating nuclear counterattack. This book takes a different approach. Rather than dismiss it as illogical, it explains The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy. It argues that military nuclear advantages above and beyond a secure, second-strike capability can contribute to a state's national security goals. This is primarily because nuclear advantages reduce a state's expected cost of nuclear war, increasing its resolve, providing it with coercive bargaining leverage and enhancing nuclear deterrence. This book provides the first coherent theoretical explanation for why military nuclear advantages translate into geopolitical advantages. In so doing, it resolves one of the longest-standing and most-intractable puzzles in international security studies. The book also explains why, in a world of growing nuclear dangers, the United States must possess, as President Donald J. Trump recently declared, a nuclear arsenal "at the top of the pack.""
650 _aMilitary policy
650 _aNational security
650 _aNuclear warfare
650 _aNuclear weapons
650 _aStrategy
700 _aMatthew Kroenig
942 _cBOOK
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