Author: Mike H. RindskopfPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563110814
Category : Submarines (Ships)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Steel Boats, Iron Men
Author: Mike H. RindskopfPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563110814
Category : Submarines (Ships)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Army, Navy, Air Force Journal & Register
Author: Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times
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ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Army and Navy Journal
Author: All Hands
Author: Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428910336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Nearly 40 years after the concept of finite deterrence was popularized by the Johnson administration, nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) thinking appears to be in decline. The United States has rejected the notion that threatening population centers with nuclear attacks is a legitimate way to assure deterrence. Most recently, it withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an agreement based on MAD. American opposition to MAD also is reflected in the Bush administration's desire to develop smaller, more accurate nuclear weapons that would reduce the number of innocent civilians killed in a nuclear strike. Still, MAD is influential in a number of ways. First, other countries, like China, have not abandoned the idea that holding their adversaries' cities at risk is necessary to assure their own strategic security. Nor have U.S. and allied security officials and experts fully abandoned the idea. At a minimum, acquiring nuclear weapons is still viewed as being sensible to face off a hostile neighbor that might strike one's own cities. Thus, our diplomats have been warning China that Japan would be under tremendous pressure to go nuclear if North Korea persisted in acquiring a few crude weapons of its own. Similarly, Israeli officials have long argued, without criticism, that they would not be second in acquiring nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Indeed, given that Israelis surrounded by enemies that would not hesitate to destroy its population if they could, Washington finds Israel's retention of a significant nuclear capability totally "understandable."
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