Moving Targets (eBook)

Nuclear Strategy and National Security

Scott Douglas Sagan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22175-5 (ISBN)

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In what Stanley Hoffmann, writing in The New York Review of Books, has called a "e;fine analysis and critique of American targeting policies,"e; Sagan looks more at the operational side of nuclear strategy than previous analysts have done, seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Air Force • Allison, Graham T. • Anti-Ballistic Missile • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty • Anti-satellite weapon • Anti-submarine warfare • Arkin, William N. • arms control • assured destruction • Atomic Age • Ball, Desmond • ballistic missile • Ballistic missile submarine • Betts, Richard K. • Blockade • Bracken, Paul • Brown, Harold • Calculation • Capability (systems engineering) • Carnesale, Albert • civil defense • Cochran, Thomas B. • Command center • counterforce • countermeasure • Crisis Management • Criticism • cruise missile • cuban missile crisis • Curtis LeMay • David, Charles-Philippe • decapitation • Decapitation strike • detection • deterrence theory • Dworkin, Gerald • Enthoven, Alain • Erickson, John • exercise notification • Feaver, Peter • Force de dissuasion • Ford, Daniel • Futrell, Robert Frank • Garthoff, Raymond L. • Glaser, Charles • Gray, Colin S. • Halloran, Richard • Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) • Harvey, John R. • Herken, Gregg • Hoffman, Fred S. • Intelligence agency • International Security • Jervis, Robert • John F. Kennedy • Joseph Nye • Kennedy, John F. • Kissinger, Henry • Latham, Donald • Launch on warning • LeMay, Curtis • LGM-118 Peacekeeper • LGM-30 Minuteman • Long, Franklin A. • Meyer, Stephen M. • military base • military doctrine • Military Operation • Military organization • Military policy • Military Strategy • Military tactics • missile • Missile Defense • Mutual Assured Destruction • National Command Authority • National Command Authority (Pakistan) • National interest • national security • National Security Archive • Nikita Khrushchev • Nitze, Paul • Nixon, Richard M. • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear peace • Nuclear power • nuclear strategy • Nuclear triad • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapons and the United States • peacetime • Perry, William • Pre-emptive nuclear strike • Quatras, Jean • Reprisal • Requirement • Richard Pipes • Robert McNamara • Rumsfeld, Donald • Sam Nunn • Schlesinger Doctrine • Schwartz, David • second strike • Slocombe, Walter • Soviet Armed Forces • Soviet Military Power • Soviet Navy • Soviet Union • Strategic Air Command • Strategic bomber • Strategic Defense Initiative • Strategic Missile Troops • strategist • Submarine-launched ballistic missile • Superiority (short story) • Tactical nuclear weapon • Technology • terrorism • Thermonuclear weapon • Trade-off • Uncertainty • United States Armed Forces • United States Department of Defense • United States Intelligence Community • United States Secretary of Defense • United States Senate Committee on Armed Services • Usability • war • warhead • Warning System • Warsaw Pact • Weapon • weapon of mass destruction • weapon system • World War • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22175-8 / 0691221758
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22175-5 / 9780691221755