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1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) |
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| Summary |
A "second nuclear age" has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more states to cross the nuclear-weapons threshold from Iran to Japan suggest that the second nuclear age of many competing nuclear powers has the potential to be even less stable than the first. Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age assembles a group of distinguished schola. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes -- After proliferation: deterrence theory and emerging nuclear powers / Joshua Rovner -- South Africa's nuclear strategy: deterring "total onslaught" and "nuclear blackmail" in three stages / Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess -- The future of Chinese nuclear strategy / Christopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, and Michael S. Chase -- North Korea's nuclear weapons program: motivations, strategy, and doctrine / Terence Roehrig -- Changing perceptions of extended deterrence in Japan / James L. Schoff -- Thinking about the unthinkable: Tokyo's nuclear option / James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara -- India's nuclear strategy / Anupam Srivastava and Seema Gahlaut -- The future of India's undersea nuclear deterrent / Andrew C. Winner -- Pakistan's nuclear posture: thinking about the unthinkable? / Timothy D. Hoyt -- Regime type, nuclear reversals, and nuclear strategy: the ambiguous case of Iran / Scott A. Jones and James R. Holmes -- Conclusion: thinking about strategy in the second nuclear age / Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Security, International.
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Security, International. |
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Strategic forces.
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Strategic forces. |
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy.
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy. |
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Nuclear weapons. |
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Nuclear warfare.
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Nuclear warfare. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Yoshihara, Toshi, editor.
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Holmes, James R., 1965- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Strategy in the second nuclear age. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2012 9781589019287 (DLC) 2012001503 (OCoLC)774021162 |
| ISBN |
9781589019294 |
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1589019296 |
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9781589019287 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1589019288 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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