Description
Product ID: | 9780812245660 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Haney Foundation Series |
Title: | No Use |
Subtitle: | Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security |
Authors: | Author: Thomas M. Nichols |
Page Count: | 232 |
Subjects: | Nuclear weapons, Nuclear weapons |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols examines the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy, ultimately arguing that this belief in the utility of nuclear force is misguided and dangerously obsolete. For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America''s nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, the Chinese, and other major nuclear powers, continue to retain a deep faith in the political and military value of nuclear force, and this belief remains enshrined at the center of U.S. defense policy regardless of the radical changes that have taken place in international politics. |
Imprint Name: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-12-31 |