Title A global history of the nuclear arms race : weapons, strategy, and politics / by Richard Dean Burns and Joseph M. Siracusa

Published Santa Barbara, CA : Praeger Security International, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Praeger security international Praeger security international (Series) Contents Vying for an A-bomb -- The emergence of a bipolar nuclear world -- Seeking international control of nuclear weapons -- NSC 68 -- Doctrines and strategies -- Thermonuclear and ballistic missile revolutions -- Fending off nuclear weapons -- Feeding or controlling the nuclear arms race? -- Toward a flexible response -- From crisis to renewed hope -- Initial independent nuclear forces -- Regional nuclear states -- Search for strategic stability -- Reagan, Gorbachev, and nuclear arms -- Post-Cold War -- The nuclear nonproliferation regime -- Reflections Summary Provides a global history of the nuclear arms race since World War II, based on a synthesis of a broad range of the available literature and providing a comprehensive, historical assessment of nuclear weapons developments -- including delivery systems, strategies, and crises -- while focusing on the role of scientists, military chiefs, and political leaders. Beginning with a discussion of the robust international scientific research of the 1930s and 1940s and the Hiroshima decision, the study essentially focuses on five basic themes -- political dimensions, technological developments, military and diplomatic strategies, and impact -- within four delineated historical eras: the United States' nuclear monopoly, the United States' nuclear superiority, superpower parity, and the post-Cold War era. Against the background of the Cold War nuclear rivalry of the Soviet Union and the United States that perforce dominated the second half of the twentieth century, attention has also been paid to the historical development of the independent deterrence of Britain, France, and China, as well as the piecemeal deterrence of newcomers Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Finally, we have attempted to describe and examine the historical efforts aimed at the international control of the atom as well as the creation of the diplomatic architecture that constitutes the foundation of the global nuclear nonproliferation regime Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from title screen (PSI, viewed April 5, 2013) Subject Nuclear weapons -- History Arms race -- History Nuclear arms control -- History Nuclear nonproliferation -- History Deterrence (Strategy) -- History HISTORY -- Military -- Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. Arms race Deterrence (Strategy) Nuclear arms control Nuclear nonproliferation Nuclear weapons Atomare Rüstung Kernwaffe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Siracusa, Joseph M. LC no. 2012040599 ISBN 9781440800955 1440800952

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