TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball,Desmond
AU  - Cattell,David T.
AU  - Freedman,Lawrence
AU  - Gray,Colin S.
AU  - Kennedy,Michael
AU  - Lee,William T.
AU  - Lewis,Kevin N.
AU  - Nyland,Frederic S.
AU  - Quester,George H.
AU  - Ramberg,Bennett
AU  - Richelson,Jeffrey
AU  - Rosenberg,David Alan
AU  - Yost,David S.
TI  - Strategic Nuclear Targeting
T2  - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
SN  - 9781501733314
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - International Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - Security Studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Glossary --; PART I. Introduction --; 1. Toward a Critique of Strategic Nuclear Targeting --; PART II. Targeting Policies and Plans --; 2. U.S. Nuclear War Planning, 1945-1960 --; 3. The Development of the SIOP, 1960-1983 --; 4. Soviet Nuclear Targeting Strategy --; 5. British Nuclear Targeting --; 6. French Nuclear Targeting --; PART III. Issues in Strategic Nuclear Targeting --; 7. The Dilemmas of Counterpower Targeting --; 8. Targeting Problems for Central War --; 9. On Keeping Them Down; or, Why Do Recovery Models Recover So Fast? --; 10. Exemplary Industrial Targets for Controlled Conflict --; 11. Population Targeting and U.S. Strategic Doctrine --; 12. Targeting Nuclear Energy --; 13. Ethnic Targeting: Some Bad Ideas --; 14. War Termination and Nuclear Targeting Strategy --; Contributors --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Although there is much discussion about nations' general policies for nuclear war, most American know little about the actual war plans of the United States and its allies and adversaries. This collection of essays by thirteen academic and professional strategists seeks to close this gap by addressing the basic issues of nuclear targeting policy: the targets to be attacked, the timing of those attacks, and the intended impact of the targeting strategy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733314
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733314
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733314/original
ER  -