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Cornell studies in security affairs |
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Cornell studies in security affairs.
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Description based on print version record |
| Summary |
In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world--a volatile mix of variables.The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger.The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again.Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegart |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Fragile Balance of Terror -- I. NEW CHALLENGES IN THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE -- Chapter 1 Multipolar Deterrence in the Emerging Nuclear Era -- Chapter 2 Psychology, Leaders, and New Deterrence Dilemmas -- Chapter 3 Thermonuclear Twitter? -- Chapter 4 Understanding New Nuclear Threats: The Open-Source Intelligence Revolution? -- II. ENDURING CHALLENGES WITH A NEW TWIST -- Chapter 5 How Much Is Enough? Revisiting Nuclear Reliability, Deterrence, and Preventive War -- Chapter 6 Survivability in the New Era of Counterforce -- Chapter 7 The Fulcrum of Fragility: Command and Control in Regional Nuclear Powers -- Chapter 8 The Limits of Nuclear Learning in the New Nuclear Age -- Conclusion: The Dangerous Nuclear Future -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index |
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Security, International.
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Nuclear weapons -- Political aspects.
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Balance of power.
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Armes nucléaires -- Aspect politique.
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Équilibre des puissances.
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Dissuasion (Stratégie)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
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Security, International
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Nuclear weapons -- Political aspects
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Balance of power
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Narang, Vipin editor
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Sagan, Scott D. editor
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| Other Form: |
Print version Fragile Balance of Terror New York : Cornell University Press, 2022 1501767011 (OCoLC)1301904911 |
| ISBN |
9781501767166 electronic bk. |
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9781501767012 electronic bk. |
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9781501767029 electronic bk. |
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150176702X electronic bk. |
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9781501767036 electronic bk. |
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1501767038 electronic bk. |
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150176716X electronic bk. |
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1501767011 electronic bk. |
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1501767011 |
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150176716X |
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AU@ 000073173768 |
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