Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy

Exploring what we know-and don't know-about how nuclear weapons shape American grand strategy and international relations
Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy helps policymakers wrestle with the latest challenges. Written in a clear, accessible, and jargon-free manner, the book also offers insights for students, scholars, and others interested in both the history and future of nuclear danger.

List of contents

Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. History and the Unanswered Questions of the Nuclear Age
2. Fixing the Franchise: The Ivory Tower-Policy Gap
3. What We Talk about When We Talk about Nuclear Weapons
4. Strategies of Inhibition
5. NATO's Radical Response to the Nuclear Revolution
6. Beyond Deterrence
7. The History of What Did Not Happen
8. Deterring while Disarming
9. Rethinking Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Notes
Index

About the author

By Francis J. Gavin

Product details

• Authors: Francis J. Gavin, Gavin Francis J.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2020
• EAN: 9780815737919
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-3791-9
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, International Relations, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control