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Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense and the Nuclear Future

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  • © 2003

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  1. Michael Krepon
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Paradigm Shifts

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 17-44

  4. Prioritizing Threats and Responses

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 45-84

  5. Missile Defense from the Cold War to Asymmetric Warfare

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 85-101

  6. Vulnerability, Risk, and Missile Defense

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 103-130

  7. Missile Defense and the Asian Cascade

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 131-164

  8. Reassessing Strategic Arms Control

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 165-186

  9. From MAD to Cooperative Threat Reduction

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 187-215

  10. Fateful Choices

    • Michael Krepon
    Pages 217-254

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 255-295
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About this book

In this book, Michael Krepon analyzes nuclear issues such as missile defenses, space warfare, and treaties, and argues that the United States is on a dangerous course. During the Cold War, Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD, facilitated strategic arms control. Now that the Cold War has been replaced by asymmetric warfare, treaties based on nuclear overkill and national vulnerability are outdated and must be adapted to a far different world. A new strategic concept of Cooperative Threat Reduction is needed to replace MAD. A balance is needed that combines military might with strengthened treaty regimes.

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'Michael Krepon's book offers a timely and incisive overview of the current debate on missile defences...the chapters emphasising the importance of cooperative threat reduction in addressing the dangers associated with arms proliferation and the rise of asymmetric warfare shoudl be required reading for academics and policymakers in the field.' - Ricardo Richards, Cambridge Review of International Affairs

About the author

MICHAEL KREPON is the Founding President of the Henry L. Stimson Center. He is the author and editor of eight books, including Strategic Stalemate, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics, Arms Control in the Reagan Administration, The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification, Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia, and Global Confidence Building: New Tools for Troubled Regions.

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