Download or read book Strategic and theater nuclear forces written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Defense Initiative written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book NATO s Theater Nuclear Force Modernization Program written by Jeffrey Record and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategy Doctrine And The Politics Of Alliance written by Paul Buteux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the processes of nuclear policymaking in NATO and the interaction of alliance strategy with the docrines underlying it. Dr. Buteux focuses on the issue of theatre nuclear force modernisation to illustrate his thesis that NATO's strategic posture results from a political process in which other than purely strategic objectives are sought; agreements on alliance strategy may in fact be related only indirectly to the actual military posture of the alliance and the means available to support it. The book highlights the cumulative effect of strategic and technological change on the strategy and nuclear politics of NATO. Emphasizing that the present strategic environment has called into question many of the strategic and political premises on which NATO's nuclear posture has been based, Dr. Buteux gives special attention to recent proposals to deploy enhanced-radiation weapons (the "neutron bomb") and new intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. He considers the impact of these proposals on NATO's nuclear policymaking process and on the ability of the alliance to continue to base its deterrent posture on the concept of flexible response

Download or read book Strategic Force Modernization Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Theater Nuclear Force Posture in Europe a Report to the United States Congress in Compliance with Public Law 93 365 written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Planning U S General Purpose Forces written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theater Nuclear Weapons and the NATO Strategy of Flexible Response written by J. Michael Legge and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than a decade of comparatively little public interest in matters of nuclear strategy, the last few years have seen a resurgence of concern about the policy of nuclear deterrence that the North Atlantic Alliance has followed since the early 1950s. In Europe in particular, this concern has centered on the role of theater nuclear weapons in NATO strategy. This report briefly examines the way in which that strategy evolved from the foundation of the Alliance in 1949 to the formal adoption of the current "flexible response" strategy in 1967, with particular reference to the role of theater nuclear weapons. It then traces the development within the NATO Nuclear Planning Group of the more detailed doctrine concerning the role of theater nuclear weapons within the overall strategy, which led inter alia to the decision taken by NATO in 1979 to modernize the long-term component of the theater nuclear forces. The report examines the main arguments that have been advanced against the current flexible response strategy, and considers the merits of various alternative strategies. The report finally considers ways in which the Alliance's theater nuclear stockpile might be adapted to meet the political and strategic needs of the 1980s.

Download or read book NATO s Theater Nuclear Forces written by Jean D. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the passage of time, the role of nuclear weapons in NATO defense strategy has changed significantly. By the 1980s, the doctrine of massive retaliation has evolved into one of flexible response. Now that the Soviet Union has reached parity with the West in strategic forces, NATO's theater nuclear strategy has emerged as a critical issue. Although deterrence remains the goal of NATO defense policy, the current configuration of NATO's triad of conventional, theater nuclear, and strategic nuclear forces may not be adequate to maintain the peace. The author focuses on theater nuclear forces, recommending changes in their configuration to support changes in conventional and strategic forces. In calling for clarification of the conditions which would justify initial use of theater nuclear weapons, he proposes an explicit linking of conventional and theater forces with strategic forces. The adoption of these proposals would allow a restatement of flexible response and enhance deterrence.

Download or read book Soviet Strategic Force Developments written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Improving NATO s Theater Nuclear Posture written by Robert A. Gessert and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Changing Roles for Theater Nuclear Forces written by Stanley D. Fair and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic parity required NATO to rely to a greater degree than in the past on its conventional forces to deter and defend against conventional aggression and to depend more than previously upon its theater nuclear forces to deter and defend against the enemy's use of nuclear weapons in Europe. The implications of strategic parity suggest that the principal mission for NATO's theater nuclear forces should change in the future from maintaining a war-fighting capability to establishing a second-strike capability. This fundamental shift in posture can be achieved only if NATO's theater nuclear forces become less vulnerable than they are in their present configuration. The need for NATO to have a survivable second-strike nuclear capability might be satisfied with the formation of separate, overwatching, nuclear-only units, such as US Army Missile Commands.

Download or read book Strategic Nuclear Parity and NATO Defense Doctrine written by Raymond E. Burrell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Department of Energy Fiscal Year 1983 National Defense Programs Authorization written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Nuclear Waste Policy Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Defense Initiative written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Nuclear Policy in the 21st Century written by Robert G. Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear weapons will continue indefinitely to play an indispensable role in U.S. national security policy: as a hedge against uncertainties, to deter potential aggressors who are both more diverse and less predictable than in the past, and to allow the United States to construct a more stable security environment. Recent nuclear tests by India and Pakistan make it clear that nuclear weapons remain part of the security setting. The aggressive pursuit of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons by states such as Iran and North Korea underscores the role of deterrence as a central component of U.S. security strategy.