Author: Malcolm W. Hoag
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
'Reinventing the wheel' is often useful. Institutional memory banks are steadily depleted as busy people change jobs. When the new jobs are in important policymaking places in government, they need to be reeducated quickly. The current disputes about the rationale for deployment of American nuclear weapons in NATO Europe, highlighted by the currently proposed deployment of 572 medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles, can only be understood in historical terms. Such is my contention. Nobody invented a careful official rationale for tactical nuclear weapons, from which subsequent deployments logically followed. No, 'like Topsy, they just grew, ' starting well before 1957. They have been the subject of many studies in depth, with much of that analytic effort being wasted precisely because the evolution of their deployment was not considered. It must be considered if we negotiate SALT III.
Forward-based Nuclear Systems in NATO in Historical Perspective Lessons for SALT III
Author: Malcolm W. Hoag
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
'Reinventing the wheel' is often useful. Institutional memory banks are steadily depleted as busy people change jobs. When the new jobs are in important policymaking places in government, they need to be reeducated quickly. The current disputes about the rationale for deployment of American nuclear weapons in NATO Europe, highlighted by the currently proposed deployment of 572 medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles, can only be understood in historical terms. Such is my contention. Nobody invented a careful official rationale for tactical nuclear weapons, from which subsequent deployments logically followed. No, 'like Topsy, they just grew, ' starting well before 1957. They have been the subject of many studies in depth, with much of that analytic effort being wasted precisely because the evolution of their deployment was not considered. It must be considered if we negotiate SALT III.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
'Reinventing the wheel' is often useful. Institutional memory banks are steadily depleted as busy people change jobs. When the new jobs are in important policymaking places in government, they need to be reeducated quickly. The current disputes about the rationale for deployment of American nuclear weapons in NATO Europe, highlighted by the currently proposed deployment of 572 medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles, can only be understood in historical terms. Such is my contention. Nobody invented a careful official rationale for tactical nuclear weapons, from which subsequent deployments logically followed. No, 'like Topsy, they just grew, ' starting well before 1957. They have been the subject of many studies in depth, with much of that analytic effort being wasted precisely because the evolution of their deployment was not considered. It must be considered if we negotiate SALT III.
Nuclear Command and Control in NATO
Author: S. Gregory
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230379109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
For more than forty years NATO premised its defence on credible nuclear deterrence. Underwriting this deterrence was NATO's strategy and the nuclear weapons and command and control systems intended to make the strategy an operational reality. This book examines NATO's attempts between 1952 and 1990 to achieve the political and military control of nuclear weapons operations in a multinational organisation. By using case-studies of US, British, French and NATO nuclear weapons operations and empirical evidence from Cold War crises it provides an analysis of NATO's experience and offers insights for the present day.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230379109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
For more than forty years NATO premised its defence on credible nuclear deterrence. Underwriting this deterrence was NATO's strategy and the nuclear weapons and command and control systems intended to make the strategy an operational reality. This book examines NATO's attempts between 1952 and 1990 to achieve the political and military control of nuclear weapons operations in a multinational organisation. By using case-studies of US, British, French and NATO nuclear weapons operations and empirical evidence from Cold War crises it provides an analysis of NATO's experience and offers insights for the present day.
Technical Abstract Bulletin
Selected Rand Abstracts
Author: Rand Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Includes publications previously listed in the supplements to the Index of selected publications of the Rand Corporation (Oct. 1962-Feb. 1963)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Includes publications previously listed in the supplements to the Index of selected publications of the Rand Corporation (Oct. 1962-Feb. 1963)
Democracy and Deterrence
Author: Philip Bobbitt
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134918991X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134918991X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Soviet Power and Western Negotiating Policies: The Western panacea, constraining Soviet power through negotiation
Author: Uwe Nerlich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Economie Soviétique À Un Tournant?
Author: Reiner Weichhardt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Germans and the INF Missiles
Author: Susanne Peters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Arms Control
Author: Ronald G. Purver
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
RUSI and Brassey's Defence Yearbook
Author: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description