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Strategic Nuclear Targeting / ed. by Jeffrey Richelson, Desmond Ball.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security AffairsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501733314
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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