Nuclear Transformation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • James J. Wirtz

      Pages 3-8

   3. The Bush Strategy in Historical Perspective

      • Marc Trachtenberg

      Pages 9-21

   4. Critiquing the NPR’s New Nuclear Missions

      • Steve Fetter, Charles L. Glaser

      Pages 23-38

3. Implementing the NPR

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. The New Triad

      • Joseph F. Pilat

      Pages 41-52

   3. Conventional Force Integration in Global Strike

      • Dennis M. Gormley

      Pages 53-67

   4. Implementing Missile Defense

      • Kerry M. Kartchner

      Pages 69-83

   5. A Responsive New Triad Infrastructure

      • Steve Maaranen

      Pages 85-101

4. Controlling the Strike Complex

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Command, Control, and the Nuclear Posture Review

      • Nathan Busch

      Pages 105-118

   3. Intelligence and the NPR

      • Charles Ball

      Pages 119-129

   4. The New Strategic Framework, the New Strategic Triad, and the Strategic Military Services

      • James M. Smith

      Pages 131-143

5. Effects and Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. The Bush Administration’s New Approach to Arms Control

      • Jeffrey A. Larsen

      Pages 147-160

   3. Nuclear Tradeoffs: Conflicts between U.S. National Security Strategy and Global Nonproliferation Efforts

      • Jeffrey W. Knopf

      Pages 161-177

6. International Reactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. The NATO Allies

      • David S. Yost

      Pages 181-194

   3. Implementing the Nuclear Posture Review: The Impact on Russia

      • Alexander G. Saveliev

      Pages 195-203

As part of its general rethinking of America's global strategy, the Bush Administration initiated a re-examination of America's nuclear doctrine that has generated considerable controversy with its focus on maintaining a reliance on nuclear weapons and potentially increasing willingness to use them. Here a group of leading strategic analysts examine the background to the re-evaluation, issues of implementation and potential implications internationally.

• desegregation
• NATO
• transformation

'This compendium of expertise has no equal and will readily find its utility on student reading lists and the shelves of practitioners, commentators and critics'. - Glen M. Segell, Institute of Security Policy, UK

'This volume...highlights the path-breaking character of the NPR, without embracing it as a panacea or dismissing it as a dangerous folly. The result is a useful stimulus to renewed thinking about the requirements of nuclear security.' - Brad Roberts, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA

'This volume contains both sympathetic analyses and informed critiques of the Bush Administration's nuclear weapons policies. The authors pierce the fog of confusion that has surrounded nuclear doctrine and shed important new light on changes in U.S. strategic planning and its impact on other nations around the globe.' - Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University, USA

• National Security Affairs Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA

  James J. Wirtz

• Larsen Consulting Group, Colorado Springs, USA

  Jeffrey A. Larsen

• Science Applications International Corporation, Colorado Springs, USA

  Jeffrey A. Larsen

• University of Denver, USA

  Jeffrey A. Larsen

JAMES J. WIRTZ is in the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, USA.

JEFFREY A. LARSEN works at the Larsen Consulting Group.

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