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First published twenty years ago, Lawrence Freedman's Evolution of
Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as a seminal work on the
history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the
terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. This new edition takes
the story beyond the end of the cold war, through the Gulf War and new
arguments about missile defence and 'rogue states', up to the impact
of the events of 11 September 2001. While the removal of the Warsaw
Pact from the scene brought to an abrupt end many of the debates that
had dominated strategic discourse for the previous four decades, the
basic question of whether or not this destructive power could be used
for political ends, and how best to stop others trying to do so,
remained.
In one volume the reader can trace the story of nuclear strategy from
its roots in thinking about airpower in the first decades of the
Twentieth Century to arguments about how to deal with the possibility
of nuclear terrorism in the Twenty-First. There is full coverage of
how the west came to rely on nuclear weapons to deter Soviet
aggression and the major problems of credibility that soon opened up
as the Soviet Union developed its own nuclear capability. The
highlights of the ensuing strategic debate are described, and the
contributions of the leading figures in these debates are examined.
The extent to which the theorising influenced the formation of policy
in the major nuclear powers is explored. At all times the wider
political context is kept in view, demonstrating the factors which
shaped the nuclear legacy with which each new generation must cope.
Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as a seminal work on the
history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the
terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. This new edition takes
the story beyond the end of the cold war, through the Gulf War and new
arguments about missile defence and 'rogue states', up to the impact
of the events of 11 September 2001. While the removal of the Warsaw
Pact from the scene brought to an abrupt end many of the debates that
had dominated strategic discourse for the previous four decades, the
basic question of whether or not this destructive power could be used
for political ends, and how best to stop others trying to do so,
remained.
In one volume the reader can trace the story of nuclear strategy from
its roots in thinking about airpower in the first decades of the
Twentieth Century to arguments about how to deal with the possibility
of nuclear terrorism in the Twenty-First. There is full coverage of
how the west came to rely on nuclear weapons to deter Soviet
aggression and the major problems of credibility that soon opened up
as the Soviet Union developed its own nuclear capability. The
highlights of the ensuing strategic debate are described, and the
contributions of the leading figures in these debates are examined.
The extent to which the theorising influenced the formation of policy
in the major nuclear powers is explored. At all times the wider
political context is kept in view, demonstrating the factors which
shaped the nuclear legacy with which each new generation must cope.
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About the Author:
LAWRENCE FREEDMAN is Professor of War Studies and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College, London. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Gulf Conflict (with Efraim Karsh) and Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. In 1997 he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign.
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First published in the 1980s, Lawrence Freedman's "Evolution of Nuclear Strategy" examines the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been rewritten, drawing on a range of research, and takes into account the period following the end of the Cold War, with arguments about missile defence.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0333652983
- ISBN 13 9780333652985
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages588
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