01780nam a22001457a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005805000150007624500600009125000110015126000420016230000250020450000370022950513680026620220411104556.0220216b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781137573490  aU263. F698  aThe evolution of nuclear strategy./bLawrence Freedman.  a4th ed  aLondon :bPalgrave macmillian,c2019.  axiv, 786 p. :c21cm.  aIncludes bibliography and index.  aContents:The arrival of the bomb -- The strategy of Hiroshima -- Offence and defence -- Aggression and retaliation -- Strategy for an atomic monopoly -- Strategy for an atomic stalemate -- Massive retaliation -- Limited objectives -- Limited means -- The importance of being first -- Sputnik and the soviet threat -- Soviet strategy after stalin -- The technological arms race -- New sources of strategy -- The strategy of stable conflict -- Disarmament to arms control -- Operational nuclear strategy-- Khrushchev's second- best deterrent -- Defending Europe -- No cities -- Assured destruction -- Britain's independent nuclear deterrent -- France and the credibility of nuclear guarantees -- A Nato nuclear force -- The unthinkable weapon -- China's paper tiger -- The Soviet approach to deterrence -- The McNamara legacy -- Salt, Parity and the critique of MAD -- Actions and reactions -- Selective options -- ICBM vulnerability -- The rise of anti - nuclear protest -- Strategic defences -- Soviet doctrine from Benzhnev to Gorbachev -- The end of the cold war -- Mutual assured safety -- Elimination or maginalization -- The second nuclear age -- The nuclear war on terror -- Proliferation: the middle east and the pacific -- The return of great power politics -- Primary and maximum deterrence -- Can there be a nuclear strategy? -- Bibliography -- Index.