US Nuclear Strategy: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Strategic Bombing and World War Two....Pages 2-9
The Command of the Air....Pages 10-21
The United States Strategic Bombing Survey....Pages 22-39
Statement by President Harry S. Truman Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima 6 August 1945....Pages 40-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The Post-War Assessments....Pages 46-53
The Implications of the Atomic Bomb for International Relations....Pages 54-63
The Atomic Bomb and American Security....Pages 64-94
The Finletter Report: Survival in the Air Age....Pages 95-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
How Different Are Nuclear Weapons?....Pages 112-121
The Evolution of Foreign Policy....Pages 122-130
Securing Peace Through Military Technology....Pages 131-142
The Delicate Balance of Terror....Pages 143-167
The Requirements of Deterrence....Pages 168-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
From No Cities to Stable Vulnerability....Pages 190-204
Speech to NATO Council, Athens 5 May 1962....Pages 205-222
Controlled Response and Strategic Warfare....Pages 223-236
The Case for Population Defense....Pages 237-262
Ballistic Missile Defense and the Arms Race....Pages 263-266
San Francisco Speech....Pages 267-282
On Escalation....Pages 283-336
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Selective Options and Limited Responses, 1974–83....Pages 338-346
Can Nuclear Deterrence Last Out The Century?....Pages 347-365
Annual Defense Department Report 1975....Pages 366-386
US Foreign Policy for the 1970s....Pages 387-405
Newport Address....Pages 406-414
The Countervailing Strategy....Pages 415-425
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Assessing Alternative Nuclear Strategies....Pages 428-437
The International Context for US Security....Pages 438-450
Strategic Deterrence Thirty Years Later: What has Changed?....Pages 451-465
Victory is Possible....Pages 466-476
The Scowcroft Report: The Report of the President’s Commission On Strategic Forces, April 1983....Pages 477-513
The 1985 Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture by Ambassador....Pages 514-514
The Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy....Pages 515-519
Back Matter....Pages 520-525