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BOOK REVIEW: The Muddle of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Strategy
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BOOK REVIEW: The Muddle of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Strategy Nuclear Transformation: The New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine Edited by James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 288 pp.
Nuclear Weapons and Strategy: U.S. Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century By Stephen J. Cimbala Routledge, 2005, 124 pp.
Nuclear Inertia: US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War By Tom Sauer Palgrave Macmillian, 2OO5, 256 pp.
Can anyone say for certain what U.S. nuclear wea...
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; The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a major policy report on June 17, entitled The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, recommending substantial changes in U.S. nuclear weapons policies and forces to bring them into conformity with the post-Cold War environment. The report's central
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; More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War and President George H. W. Bush's 1992 decision to end the production of new nuclear weapons. Today, U.S. military might is unrivaled. By far, its greatest security challenge is stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and reducing the
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