Author: John SlessorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
NATO Nuclear Strategy: Some Lessons from History
Author: John SlessorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
NATO Nuclear Strategy: Some Lessons from History
Author: John SlessorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Forward-based Nuclear Systems in NATO in Historical Perspective Lessons for SALT III
Author: Malcolm W. HoagPublisher:
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 3
Author: Rand CorporationNuclear Command and Control in NATO
Author: Shaun GregoryPublisher: Macmillan Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780333646977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This work examines NATO's attempts between 1952 and 1990 to achieve the political and military control of nuclear weapons operations in a multinational organization. Using case-studies, it provides an analysis of NATO's experience and offers insights for t
Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam
Author: Gar AlperovitzPublisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Assessment of the influence of the atomic factor on U.S.-Russian relations since the Hiroshima bombing under the Truman administration.
NATO Strategy and Nuclear Planning: Oral History Interview Transcripts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The purpose of these oral history roundtables was to discuss the political and military factors, which influenced the integration of nuclear weapons into U.S. and NATO military planning and strategy during the 1950s. As the transcripts reveal, assumptions about Soviet military capabilities and the nature of a future war in Europe, both of which were surrounded by substantial uncertainties, played a key role in this process, which resulted in the adoption in 1957 of MC 14/2, which contained aspects both of massive retaliation and flexible response in setting forth the strategic doctrine of the NATO alliance.
Extended Deterrence
Author: Stephen J. CimbalaPublisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
NATO's New Strategic Concept. A Comprehensive Assessment
Author: Sten RynningPublisher: DIIS - Copenhagen
ISBN: 8776054322
Category : Defence policy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
How NATO Adapts
Author: Seth A. JohnstonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421421984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Despite momentous change, NATO remains a crucial safeguard of security and peace. Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.” These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s end, 9/11, or recent twenty-first-century developments but represent a more general pattern of adaptability first seen in the incorporation of Germany as a full member of the alliance in the early 1950s. Unlike other enduring post–World War II institutions that continue to reflect the international politics of their founding era, NATO stands out for the boldness and frequency of its transformations over the past seventy years. In this compelling book, Seth A. Johnston presents readers with a detailed examination of how NATO adapts. Nearly every aspect of NATO—including its missions, functional scope, size, and membership—is profoundly different than at the organization’s founding. Using a theoretical framework of “critical junctures” to explain changes in NATO’s organization and strategy throughout its history, Johnston argues that the alliance’s own bureaucratic actors played important and often overlooked roles in these adaptations. Touching on renewed confrontation between Russia and the West, which has reignited the debate about NATO’s relevance, as well as a quarter century of post–Cold War rapprochement and more than a decade of expeditionary effort in Afghanistan, How NATO Adapts explores how crises from Ukraine to Syria have again made NATO’s capacity for adaptation a defining aspect of European and international security. Students, scholars, and policy practitioners will find this a useful resource for understanding NATO, transatlantic relations, and security in Europe and North America, as well as theories about change in international institutions.