Getting Nuclear Weapons Right: Managing Danger and Avoiding Disaster

Can we avoid nuclear war? Why are we more at risk today than at the end of the Cold War? Can the world powers work together to ensure international stability? Stephen Cimbala provides a comprehensive assessment of these complex issues, ranging from the prospects for nuclear abolition, to the management of nuclear crises, to the imperative need for nuclear arms control worldwide.

CONTENTS:

• Getting Nuclear Weapons Right.

• Alternative Nuclear Regimes.

• Nuclear Abolition: Realistic Aspiration or Pipe Dream?

• Minimum Deterrence: How Low Can Arsenals Go?
• Controlling Nuclear War: A Paradoxical Imperative.

• Nuclear Proliferation: Challenging International Order.

• US-Russian Nuclear Arms Control.
• Adding China to the Mix.

• NATO: Past Accomplishments, New Challenges.

• Nuclear Crisis Management in the Information Age.

• The Third Offset Strategy and Nuclear Weapons.

• Managing Danger and Avoiding Nuclear Disaster.
Appendix: A Decisionmaking Exercise by the US Army War College.