Nick Ritchie

Us Nuclear Weapons Policy After the Cold War

Russians, 'Rogues' and Domestic Division

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers an examination of America's nuclear weapons policy since the end of the Cold War. Exploring nuclear forces structure, arms control, regional planning and the weapons production complex, this volume identifies sets of ideas about nuclear weapons and domestic political constraints on major shifts in policy.

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This book offers an in-depth examination of America's nuclear weapons policy since the end of the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415466264
• ISBN-10: 0415466261
• Artikelnr.: 25683290

Autorenporträt

Nick Ritchie is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He is co-author of The Political Road to War in Iraq (Routledge 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The policy-making process. Actors involved in nuclear
weapons policy. The annual nuclear policy budgetary process 2. American
nuclear weapons policy at the end of the Cold War 3. Nuclear weapons policy
under George H. W. Bush. Key decisions. Nuclear arms control. Nuclear
forces. 'Rogue' states and nuclear planning. The nuclear weapons production
complex. Conclusion 4. Nuclear weapons policy under Bill Clinton. Nuclear
forces. Nuclear arms control. Russia, 'rogues' and nuclear planning. The
nuclear weapons complex. Conclusion 5. Nuclear weapons policy under George
W. Bush. Nuclear policy and the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review. Nuclear
forces. Nuclear arms control. The nuclear weapons production complex.
Conclusion 6. Post-Cold War trends in nuclear weapons policy 7. The
influence of ideas on nuclear weapons policy. Three competing 'idea sets'
Idea set 1: Managing the drawdown of Cold War nuclear forces Idea set 2:
Responding to nuclear proliferation through progress in arms control and
disarmament Idea set 3: Responding to nuclear proliferation by re-orienting
Cold War nuclear weapons policy to a post-Cold War war-fighting policy
Conclusion 8. Domestic politics and nuclear weapons policy. Policy inertia.
Political disinterest in nuclear weapons policy. Military disinterest in
nuclear weapons policy. Nuclear conservatism and neglect. Conclusion