The Nuclear Confrontation In Europe

Author : Jeffrey H. Boutwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000199584
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe written by Jeffrey H. Boutwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, this book explores the nuclear confrontation between East and West in Europe: where we stand, how we got there and what the future may hold. Its concluding chapter outlines the prospects for nuclear arms control in Europe, and it frames the debate over NATO strategy and the role of nuclear weapons in the years ahead. Can NATO reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons? Can it cope with the issues at all? The chapters on NATO theatre nuclear forces and doctrine provide a rich background to current policy issues. The public debate over NATO’s 1979 decision to deploy new American cruise and Pershing nuclear missiles in Europe was hardly unprecedented in NATO’s history: similar controversy surrounded NATO deliberations in the late 1950s and early 1960s. That debate, however, subsided in the mid-1960s; the nuclear question in Europe was relegated to the ‘wilderness’, though efforts – largely unavailing – continued within official circles to define more clearly the role of nuclear weapons in NATO’s defense. Against this backdrop, the nuclear debate emerged again in the 1970s. This title unravels the military and political considerations at play in that debate and maps the European politics surrounding it. Today it can be read in its historical context.

Author : Christoph Bluth
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664113738
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows of War written by Christoph Bluth and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military dimension of the Cold War was characterised by the strategic nuclear stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union as well as the large-scale regional military confrontation in Central Europe. As part of the process of East-West détente there was an effort to address the risks of war in Europe by means of an arms control process referred to as MBFR (Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions). The true purposes and intentions of both sides (NATO and the Warsaw Pact) in these negotiations have so far not been fully understood. This book is based on path-breaking archival research that clarifies the objectives and tactics of the parties to the negotiations and the reasons for why the negotiations ended without an agreement. It makes a major new contribution to the understanding of Cold War History.

Author : Jenonne Walker
Publisher : SIPRI Research Reports
ISBN 13 : 9780198291763
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security and Arms Control in Post-confrontation Europe written by Jenonne Walker and published by SIPRI Research Reports. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new dangers and challenges to international security in Europe after the Cold War are examined in this book. The changing nature of Europe's security problems has necessitated new thinking among both civilians and the military about arms control, the problems it should address, the purposes it should serve, and even what should be called `arms control' today. Arms control should be seen as encompassing all aspects of the military dimension of the endeavours to mitigate or mediate tensions within states and to keep them from tuning violent. It entails joint management of the cold war legacy of nuclear and conventional weapons. Security and Arms Control in Post-Confrontation Europe examines in particular the role which could and should be played by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) for the prevention of intra-state armed conflicts.

Author : Rodric Braithwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019087029X
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armageddon and Paranoia written by Rodric Braithwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September 1961, President John F. Kennedy told his audience that "every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads." In this sweeping, immersive, and now chillingly relevant history of nuclear confrontation, eminent historian and diplomat Rodric Braithwaite offers the tale of that slender thread, a tale that spans from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 into the present. Here is an account of treaties and summits, of life-and-death strategy among nations, featuring a vast and varied cast of individuals--scientists, spies, diplomats, generals, politicians, shamans, writers, geniuses, the hight-minded and the crackpot--all ow whom played their part in shaping the Nuclear Age. As [this book] shows, containing atomic weapons has been a central preoccupation of global politics and policy for the last seven decades. In the years after World War II, atomic weapons were initially controlled only by the superpowers, first the United States, followed shortly by the former Soviet Union (mainly by having infiltrated the Manhattan Project), then developed in succession by England, France, China, India, and Pakistan. In recent years, North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons program and is now developing the means of delivering them. Nuclear proliferation has long dominated and even obsessed international diplomacy and policy, particularly as the capacity to unleash catastrophic destruction became widespread. Braithwaite offers an overview of policy from the Cold war reliance on what was termed "Deterrence," a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), to the "Armageddon theology" of Ronald Reagan, to the de-alerting of nuclear weapons promised by both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to the fire and fury driving the current war of tweeted insults. For nearly three-quarters of a century, nuclear weapons have shadowed human existence, moving from crisis to quiescence and back to crisis. Armageddon and Paranoia comes at a time when tensions are mounting once more. Though we cannot un-invent the atomic bomb, Braithwaite's clear-sighted and illuminating history provides a deeper understanding of how it has shaped the world in which we live. -- Dust jacket.

Author : Kurt Gottfried
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000309347
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforging European Security written by Kurt Gottfried and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides some answers to the questions of how to pursue the build-down of the East-West military confrontation in Europe and of how to build up an enduring and effective security system for Europe. It is the result of a three year study of European security affairs.

Author : Jonathan Dean
Publisher : Free Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watershed in Europe written by Jonathan Dean and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Edwards Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security in Europe written by Robert Edwards Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alastair Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms and Stability in Europe written by Alastair Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Malcolm
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia and Europe written by Neil Malcolm and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the changes which have come about since 1985 in relations between Russia and the rest of Europe, considering the prospects for building a new, constructive relationship. International scholars cover political, security, economic, bilateral and multilateral aspects.

Author : Van Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108473482
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Brink written by Van Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.