Strategy for Terminating a Nuclear War

List of contents

A Nuclear War Scenario Without Controlled Termination 2 A Termination Strategy: Retaliatory Invasion And Cities Targeting Exclusion (Riacte) .3 Concepts Of Nuclear War Strategy 4 Principles For Effective Nuclear War Termination 5 Military Elements In Termination Strategy 6 Political Elements Affecting Termination Strategy 7 Responses Of Allied And Adversary Nations To The Termination Strategy 8 Current Plans And Capabilities For Nuclear War Termination 9 Scripts And Scenarios For The Strategy 10 Critical Reactions To The Strategy 11 A Nuclear War Scenario With Controlled Termination

About the author

Dr. Clark C. Abt is founder and president of Abt Associates Inc., a private social and economic policy research firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Summary

Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine. Dr. Abt examines the feasibility of antagonists' agreeing to exclude their open cities from nuclear targeting and to replace strategic bombardment with retaliatory invasion to create less of a hairtrigger deterrent.

Product details

• Authors: Abt, Clark C Abt, Clark C. Abt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367008475
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00847-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, military history, HISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Chemical & biological weapons, Chemical and biological weapons