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Despite the ongoing drawdown of strategic forces under the terms of START, both the United States and Russia maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons poised for immediate launch. Under the most optimistic current scenarios, these arsenals will remain very large and launch-ready for more than a decade. This book, by a distinguished group of coauthors, critically evaluates the current policy of retaining and operating large nuclear arsenals. It reviews US nuclear doctrine and strategy, and the role of nuclear weapons in deterring aggression by former Cold War adversaries and other countries with weapons of mass destruction. The risks of inadvertent as well as deliberate nuclear attack are assessed. The authors argue that small arsenals (low hundreds) on low alert satisfy all justifiable requirements for nuclear weapons. They present a blueprint for making deep cuts in US and Russian deployments, and for lowering their alert level. They explain the implications of shifting to small arsenals for further constraining anti-ballistic missile defences, strengthening verification, and capping or reducing the nuclear arsenals of China, France, and Britain as well as the threshold nuclear states. The political challenges and opportunities, both domestic and international, for achieving deep reductions in the size and readiness of nuclear forces are analyzed by the authors and by distinguished experts from other countries. The coauthors are Bruce Blair, Jonathan Dean, James Goodby, Steve Fetter, Hal Feiveson, George Lewis, Janne Nolan, Theodore Postol, and Frank von Hippel. An appendix with international perspectives by Li Bin (China), Alexei Arbatov (Russia), Therese Delpech (France and Britain), Pervez Hoodboy (Pakistan), Shai Feldman (Israel), Harald Mueller (Germany), and Arun Singh (India).

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: Nuclear Turning Point
• Subtitle: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons
• Author: Frank Von Hippel, Theodore Postol, Janne E. Nolan, George Lewis, Steve Fetter, James Goodby, Jonathan Dean, Bruce G. Blair
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402
• EAN: 9780815709534
• ISBN: 0815709536
• ID: 04727350
• Publisher: Brookings Institution
• Weight: 628 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1999

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