01834nam a22001697a 4500 20220411104556.0 220216b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781137573490 U263. F698 The evolution of nuclear strategy./ Lawrence Freedman. 4th ed London : Palgrave macmillian, 2019. xiv, 786 p. : 21cm. Includes bibliography and index. Contents: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. lcc BK 8719 16219 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2022-02-16 U263. F698 9140/589/22 2022-02-16 00:00:00 1 2022-02-16 BK