Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense and the Nuclear Future

AvM. Krepon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union accepted Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD, to facilitate strategic arms control. Now the Cold War has been replaced by asymmetric warfare, and the demise of the Soviet Union has prompted a new set of proliferation nightmares. Treaties based on nuclear overkill and national vulnerability are now outdated, and must be adapted to a far different world. A new strategic concept of Cooperative Threat Reduction is needed to replace MAD. The last wave of creative thinking about strategic arms control crested over four decades ago. This book presents a new strategic concept to deal with the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of asymmetric warfare. The United States has developed cooperative threat reduction programs to safeguard dangerous materials and weapons in the former Soviet Union. These efforts deserve to be expanded and elevated into a central organizing principle to increase national, regional and global security.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-02-06
Mått:140 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt:466 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:295
Upplaga:2003
Förlag:St Martin's Press
ISBN:9780312295561

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MICHAEL KREPON is the Founding President of the Henry L. Stimson Center. He is the author and editor of eight books, including Strategic Stalemate, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics, Arms Control in the Reagan Administration, The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification, Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia, and Global Confidence Building: New Tools for Troubled Regions.

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'Michael Krepon's book offers a timely and incisive overview of the current debate on missile defences...the chapters emphasising the importance of cooperative threat reduction in addressing the dangers associated with arms proliferation and the rise of asymmetric warfare shoudl be required reading for academics and policymakers in the field.' - Ricardo Richards, Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Introduction The Paradigm Shifts Prioritizing Threats and Responses Missile Defense From the Cold War to Asymmetric Warfare Vulnerability, Risk, and Missile Defense Missile Defense and the Asian Cascade Reassessing Strategic Arms Control From MAD to Cooperative Threat Reduction Fateful Choices