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This book provides a more inclusive framework for assessing the possible development and deployment of a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system by the United States or the Soviet Union.

This book analyzes the United States and Russia's nuclear arms control and deterrence relationships and how these countries must lead current and prospective efforts to support future nuclear arms control and nonproliferation. The second nuclear age, following the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, poses new challenges with respect to nuclear-strategic stability, deterrence and nonproliferation. The spread of nuclear weapo...

This book analyzes the United States and Russia's nuclear arms control and deterrence relationships and how these countries must lead current and prospective efforts to support future nuclear arms control and nonproliferation. The second nuclear age, following the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, poses new challenges with respect to nuclear-strategic stability, deterrence and nonproliferation. The spread of nuclear weapo...

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Russia is a post-communist country struggling to adapt to the modern world economically and politically. In the twenty-first century, Russia faces postmodern social, cultural, and political problems with its old policy of deterrence. For Russia¿s political leaders and military planners, three scenarios define their postmodern setting: 1) the world¿s leading military and economic powers, with the exception of China, are market-based economies a...

This text looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century. The book explores how nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age on account of their capability for destruction.

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Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations, the role perceptions of military professionals across generations, the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-challenged political systems, the usefulness of business models in military management, the attributes of civil-military relations during unconventio...

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In the twenty-first century, the United States confronts an international system of great complexity and shifting security challenges. Among these challenges are those posed by nuclear weapons. This book deals with this topic.

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Originally published: London: Frank Cass, 2005.

The profound political changes in the USSR and Eastern Europe during 1989 have forced the United States and its Western European allies to reevaluate both their long held military strategy of nuclear deterrence and the traditional role of NATO in European affairs. In this volume, Stephen Cimbala considers the ways in which American military priorities will have to change now that the tangible threat to Europe has been removed, exploring the op...

Cimbala shows why the prevention, management, and concluding of war all require an understanding of the subjective aspects of decision making as well as the hardware and tactics of military operations. A review of past cases of U.S. security policy decision making and a preview of some future problems are combined to distill important lessons about coping with conflict in the post-Cold War world.These lessons include the awareness that some co...

As proven by the recent discovery of ongoing research and tests in India and Pakistan, the nuclear age is not dead. Nuclear weapons, deployed in plentiful numbers during the Cold War by the Americans and Soviets, and, in lesser numbers, by others, were nevertheless controlled in their use by the essential equivalence, of U.S. and Soviet strategic power and by the ability of the U.S. and the Soviet Union to dominate the international security e...