Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy
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Publication Date
1988
Description
This book provides an assessment of future problems, particularly the neglected connection between strategy and proliferation, and an analysis of various ways of coping with these problems.
Disciplines
Law | Military History | Military, War, and Peace
ISBN
9780312005221
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
City
New York, NY
Reviews
"This is an important, difficult book in an area where fresh perspective seems improbable. Deterring a Soviet nuclear attack on the American homeland has always been a relatively undemanding task, and so American strategic planning has been driven by the problem of extending nuclear protection to Western Europe and Japan. 'Crises of vulnerability' did not affect homeland-to-homeland deterrence but did create tensions in extended deterrence; when those tensions were addressed through innovation in strategic doctrine, the result did change the central relationship. The latest vulnerability is more portentous because it arises not from 'technological or operational developments but from the growing social alienation of the democratic publics from the policy of nuclear deterrence.'"
—Gregory F. Treverton, Foreign Affairs
Recommended Citation
Bobbitt, Philip Chase, "Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy" (1988). Faculty Books. 69.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/69