Nuclear Weapons, Policies, and the Test Ban Issue

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

For nearly forty years, U.S. deterrence policy has depended on nuclear weapons, making the modernization of those weapons a key goal of every administration. Nuclear Weapons, Policies, and the Test Ban Issue presents a cogent discussion of the reasons why the United States should actively continue its nuclear weapons program. The authors claim that weapons testing and development has neither kept up with technological advances nor logically followed from professed U.S. policy. They attribute these shortcomings to such forces as budget limitations, alliance politics, domestic politics, and, most importantly, the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275923129
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/19/1987
Series:	Praeger Security International
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.31(d)

Table of Contents

Acronyms
Preface
Introduction
The Soviet and American Views
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policies
Nuclear Force Requirements
Testing and Modernization
Arms Control: Final Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography
Index