Dead Volcano: The Background and Effects of Nuclear War Complacency

by Stephen J. Cimbala

Overview

Argues that nuclear complacency can cause a nuclear war in the 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313015502
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/30/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	423 KB

About the Author

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn State University (Delaware County). He has contributed to the literature of international security, defense studies, and nuclear arms control for more than 20 years. Cimbala recently published Nuclear Strategy in the Next Century (Praeger, 2000). He serves on the editorial boards of various professional jourbanals and has served as a consultant to various agencies of the U.S. government and policy think tanks.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
1.	The Nuclear Revolution and American Military Strategy	1
2.	Nuclear Weapons and Soviet Cold War Strategy: Adapting to MADness	37
3.	Friction and Nuclear Deterrence	59
4.	A Near Escape? The 1983 "War Scare" and Nuclear Danger	85
5.	Nuclear Weapons and U.S.-Russian Arms Control	109
6.	Russian Nuclear Command and Control: Policy and Strategy Perspectives	145
7.	Cyberwar and Nuclear Deterrence	175
8.	The Danger of Nuclear Weapons Spread	215
	Conclusion	241
	For Further Reading	259
	Index	261

Editorial Reviews

Like peasant farmers convinced that the looming volcano will never erupt because it never has, warns Cimbala (political science, Pennsylvania State U.-Delaware County), policy makers, theorists, and lay observers are dead wrong to be optimistic about the future of nuclear weapons, war, and politics. He identifies the major error as believing that nuclear weapons were not necessary to avoiding World War III, and so believing they are irrelevant now. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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