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  • Jul 2003

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Lawrence Freedman

    1. King’s College, London, UK

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. First and Second Thoughts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Arrival of the Bomb

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      Pages 3-20

    3. Offence and Defence

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      Pages 21-31

    4. Aggression and Retaliation

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      Pages 32-42

  3. Towards a Policy of Deterrence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly

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      Pages 45-59

    3. Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate

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      Pages 60-71

    4. Massive Retaliation

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      Pages 72-85

  4. Limited War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Limited Objectives

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      Pages 89-100

    3. Limited Means

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      Pages 101-113

  5. Limited War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. The Importance of Being First

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      Pages 117-130

    3. Sputniks and the Soviet Threat

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      Pages 131-145

    4. The Technological Arms Race

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      Pages 146-161

  6. The Strategy of Stable Conflict

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. The Formal Strategists

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      Pages 165-178

    3. Arms Control

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      Pages 179-195

    4. Bargaining and Escalation

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      Pages 196-211
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About this book

First published twenty years ago, Lawrence Freedman's Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, taking the story to contemporary arguments about missile defence.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • King’s College, London, UK

    Lawrence Freedman

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About the author

LAWRENCE FREEDMAN is Professor of War Studies and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College, London. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Gulf Conflict (with Efraim Karsh) and Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. In 1997 he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign.
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