Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (Record no. 18202)
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| fixed length control field | 01827nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0691023123 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 355.0217 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Glaser, Charles L. 1954- |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy |
| Statement of responsibility | Charles L. Glaser 1954- |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | GHQ, Rawalpinidi |
| Name of publisher | Army Education Press |
| Year of publication | 2000 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii,378 Pages |
| Other physical details | 24x16 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.S. defense policy, it is time to reassess basic questions of American nuclear strategy and force requirements. In a comprehensive analysis of these issues, Charles Glaser argues that even before the recent easing of tension with the Soviet Union, the United States should have revised its nuclear strategy, rejecting deterrent threats that require the ability to destroy Soviet nuclear forces and forgoing entirely efforts to limit damage if all-out nuclear war occurs. Changes in the Soviet Union, suggests Glaser, may be best viewed as creating an opportunity to make revisions that are more than twenty years overdue. Glaser's provocative work is organized in three parts. "The Questions behind the Questions" evaluates the basic factual and theoretical disputes that underlie disagreements about U.S. nuclear weapons policy. "Alternative Nuclear Worlds" compares "mutual assured destruction capabilities" (MAD)--a world in which both superpowers' societies are highly vulnerable to nuclear retaliation--to the basic alternatives: mutual perfect defenses, U.S. superiority, and nuclear disarmament. Would any basic alternatives be preferable to MAD? Drawing on the earlier sections of the book, "Decisions in MAD" addresses key choices facing American decision makers. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Military Policy |
| -- | Nuclear Warfare |
| -- | United States |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-02-18 | MSL | 355.0217 G541A 2000 | 26649 | Books |