Military - Weapons - General & Miscellaneous, Military - Strategy, Armed Forces - United States - General & Miscellaneous, Nuclear Weapons Policy, United States - Military Policy, Military - Weapons - Nuclear Weapons
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Overview
This book provides an analysis that determines which land-based strategic weapons the United States should retain in the post-Cold War era. The future of the former Soviet Union and deterrence theory are examined to develop strategic criteria for evaluating weapon systems. A computer model, included in the text, finds land-based forces that most inexpensively meet these criteria. Contents: Introduction; The Future Strategic Environment; How Much is Enough?; Weapons Systems; How to Find Optimal Force Postures; Results and Conclusions; Appendix; Tables; Figures.Author Biography: Eric K. Graben is a Post-Doctoral Researcher for the Center for National Security Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Editorials
Armed Forces Journal
The book contains a good discussion of the changing nature of Soviet/Russian strategic thought, cost effectiveness, and its application to force postures, and it even touches on the ethical dimension of deterrence....the author writes in a clear and interesting manner.Armed Forces Journal -
...one of the most rigorous reviews of U.S. land-based strategic nuclear force requirements to appear since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1992
Publisher
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1992.
Pages
270
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780819187796