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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Book Title
- Nuclear Monopoly
- ISBN
- 9780765800220
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Business & Economics, History
- Publication Name
- Nuclear Monopoly
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Intergovernmental Organizations, Military / Nuclear Warfare, General, Industries / Energy
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 234 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0765800225
ISBN-13
9780765800220
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1677686
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
234 Pages
Publication Name
Nuclear Monopoly
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Subject
Intergovernmental Organizations, Military / Nuclear Warfare, General, Industries / Energy
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
00-030271
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Quester, professor emeritus of international relations at Maryland and a former director of peace studies at Cornell, leaves no hypothesis unexamined in asking why the United States did not use its nuclear monopoly in 1945-1949 to keep it that way, either by threat or by preventative war. . . . Quester's surprisingly dispassionate willingness to evaluate all nuclear war scenarios may remind one of Russell's strong interest in another policy outcome book, Kahn's On Thermonuclear War. An important question for Quester is whether a preventative war against the USSR, with the attendant moral as well as physical sacrifices, would have been a temporary solution. He judges it "much less than the once-and-for-all solution to the problem of nuclear weapons" (p.19)--unlike Russell's intended world government solution." --Kenneth Blackwell, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies
Dewey Decimal
355.02/17/0973
Synopsis
Throughout the decades of the Cold War, people all around the world lived in fear of thermonuclear war. To assuage that fear theorists of deterrence explained over and over again that both sides had to be able to retaliate with "mutual assured destruction," to keep nuclear weapons from being used. Yet this "basic fact" of nuclear deterrence begs the question: What deterred the United States from a preemptive strike before 1949 when Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union had not yet acquired nuclear weapons of its own? In Nuclear Monopoly George Quester sets forth the case for preventive war using rudimentary atomic weapons to avoid the possibility of a future war in which both sides would have used hydrogen bombs. Quester demonstrates that the notion of mutual assured destruction was rooted in the questionable assumption that assured destruction must be mutual and that the United States "of course" would never consider preventive war. He explores the logic of these assumptions against the historical circumstances of the years 1945-1949 and the thinking of influential personalities and decision-makers that determined U.S. nuclear policy. In 1945 the United States was able to inflict nuclear destruction and had no fear of retaliation. Arguably the United States could have used that advantage to extract major political concessions from the Soviet Union, including surrender, disarmament, and democratization. At the same time it might have prevented the proliferation and development of nuclear weapons. Against this view Quester analyzes a range of prevailing views from practical and procedural considerations. These range from the shortage of bombs and other resources, ineffectiveness of bombing, Soviet resistance, and the vulnerability of Western Europe, to larger questions of American morality: absence of a casus belli, civilian casualties, and concern about untrammeled arrogance of power. With dissolution of the Soviet Union and the proliferation of nuclear weapons among small powers and rogue states, the failure to head off Soviet nuclear capacity takes on greater historical weight. The options of the next century will never be what they were from 1945-1949, but this study of the military and strategic decision-making provides important insights for future conflicts. Nuclear Monopoly will be of interest to military historians, policymakers, and political scientists., Throughout the Cold War, theorists argue, nuclear arms stopped war, as both sides could retaliate with ""mutual assured destruction"". This fact begs the question: why did the USA not strike preemptively before the USSR developed atomic arms? This text sets the case for such a preventive nuclear war.
LC Classification Number
UA23.Q4723 2000
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