The Absolute Nuclear Weapon Revisited Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order

Paul, T. V. & Harknett, Richard J. & Wirtz, James (Eds. )

ISBN 10: 0472087002 / ISBN 13: 9780472087006

Published by University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2000

About this Item

312 pp. Index. Light edgewear. Prev owner's name on the half-title page. Revised papers from a conference held at McGill University, Montreal in November 1995. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Absolute Nuclear Weapon Revisited Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI
• Publication Date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0472087002
• ISBN 13: 9780472087006
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good-

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Synopsis

Soon after nuclear weapons devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard Brodie and several colleagues wrote The Absolute Weapon, which predicted that the atomic bomb would revolutionize international politics. In The Absolute Weapon Revisited, a group of noted scholars explores the contemporary role of nuclear weapons in the world after the end of the Cold War. Although superpower rivalry has faded, the complexities of living with nuclear weapons remain. Working from different theoretical perspectives, the contributors offer a set of provocative assessments of nuclear deterrence and the risks of nuclear proliferation and disarmament. Some argue that assured destruction capabilities remain important, while others argue that nuclear deterrence will be increasingly irrelevant. Arms control, crisis stability, and continuity and change in nuclear doctrine as well as new issues such as virtual nuclear states and information warfare, are some of the issues addressed by the contributors to The Absolute Weapon Revisited. The contributors are Zachary Davis, Colin S. Gray, Richard J. Harknett, Ashok Kapur, Robert Manning, William C. Martel, Eric Mlyn, John Mueller, J. V. Paul, George Quester, and James J. Wirtz. This book will be of interest to scholars, policymakers and students interested in issues of nuclear strategy and deterrence, arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament, international security and peace studies.

About the Author

T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University, and the author of Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons. Richard J. Harknett is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, and the author of numerous articles on security affairs. James J. Wirtz is Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, and the author of The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure at War.