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Author :United States. Congress Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781979765466 Total Pages :62 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (654 download)
Book Synopsis Nuclear Deterrence by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Nuclear Deterrence written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear deterrence : the Defense Science Board's perspective : hearing before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, hearing held March 9, 2017.
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Book Synopsis Nuclear Deterrence by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee
Download or read book Nuclear Deterrence written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781982029319 Total Pages :62 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (293 download)
Book Synopsis Nuclear Deterrence--The Defense Science Board's Perspective by : Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the
Download or read book Nuclear Deterrence--The Defense Science Board's Perspective written by Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2016, in the waning days of the Obama administration, the Defense Science Board [DSB] completed a report titled, "Seven Defense Priorities for the New Administration." It made recommendations to the new Trump administration on key issues in the world of defense. The Board has published 12 studies over the 14 years on this topic. So it is clear the Board has spent a lot of time thinking about this. A defense mission of this importance seems worthy of sustained and focused attention. As the new administration and Congress goes forward with the nuclear modernization program initiated by President Obama, the Board's experts help us take stock. They help us understand how nuclear threats are evolving and how we should compensate. They help us understand where we have been and where we should go. In its report, the DSB correctly noted that our nuclear forces remain a cornerstone of U.S. national security. Given how critical these nuclear systems are and with costly modernization programs occurring concurrently, we can't afford to get this wrong. There is no more important defense objective than preventing a nuclear attack on the United States or its allies, and the foundation for prevention is deterrence. Ensuring a credible nuclear deterrent for the long-term future will continue to be a major priority for this Nation and the Congress.
Author :United States. Defense Science Board. Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :130 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (298 download)
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Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills written by United States. Defense Science Board. Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Defense Science Board. Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :75 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (574 download)
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Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence written by United States. Defense Science Board. Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines potential measures that DoD should take to sustain nuclear forces, nuclear weapons capabilities, and supporting infrastructure. The Terms of Reference specified that emphasis be placed on 1) Sustaining nuclear weapons stockpile and developing needed capabilities, including delivery system capabilities, in light of arms control agreements, 2) the adequacy of the DOE Stockpile Stewardship for meeting future DoD requirements, 3) the adequacy of the nuclear technical base, 4) future industrial base capability for nuclear deterrent forces and weapons, 5) options for future nuclear deterrent forces and stockpile, acquisition strategies, R & D timelines, manufacturing and production capabilities, common systems and/or subsystems.
Book Synopsis Nuclear Deterrence Skills by : Defense Science Board
Download or read book Nuclear Deterrence Skills written by Defense Science Board and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills was chartered to assess all aspects of nuclear deterrent skills-military, federal, and contractor-and to recommend methods and strategies to maintain a right sized, properly trained, and experienced work force to ensure the viability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent through 2020. As long as anyone in the world has or can acquire nuclear weapons, America must have nuclear deterrence expertise competent to avoid strategic surprise and respond to present and future challenges. There are many kinds of threats that demand national leadership, but no threat can put the nation's existence at risk as quickly and as chillingly as nuclear weapons. To say this is not to dismiss the seriousness of other threats. It simply acknowledges that since the dawn of the nuclear age, security from nuclear attack has been in a class of its own, and major national decisions on nuclear deterrence issues have been reserved for the President of the United States. Nuclear deterrence expertise is uniquely demanding. It cannot be acquired overnight or on the fly. It resides in a highly classified environment mandated by law, it crosses a number of disciplines and skills, and it involves implicit as well as explicit knowledge. Nuclear weapons expertise is necessary to design and build nuclear weapons, to plan and operate nuclear forces, and to design defense against nuclear attack. It is also necessary to analyze and understand foreign nuclear weapons programs, devise nuclear policies and strategies, deal with allies who depend on the American nuclear umbrella, prevent and counter nuclear proliferation, defeat nuclear terrorism, and-in the event that a nuclear detonation takes place by accident or cold, hostile intent-cope with the catastrophic consequences. America's nuclear deterrence and nuclear weapons expertise resides in what this study calls the "nuclear security enterprise." This enterprise includes nuclear activities in the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy, Intelligence Community (IC), and the Department of Homeland Security. During the Cold War, the bulk of the nuclear security enterprise consisted of the U.S. nuclear weapons program and force posture devoted to deterring the Soviet Union. The skills acquired for those activities provided a robust base from which the United States not only could conduct nuclear deterrence, but also could devote expertise with nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism issues. However, nuclear deterrence was the principal focus. Today, deterrence of major power nuclear threats and the prospects of global war have receded in national priority while nuclear proliferation terrorism and defense have become urgent concerns. Today's nuclear security enterprise devotes the energy and attention to proliferation and terrorism issues that once were reserved for nuclear offensive forces. It is in that context that this task force reviewed nuclear deterrence expertise.
Book Synopsis Report of Tbe Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence by : Defense science board washington dc
Download or read book Report of Tbe Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence written by Defense science board washington dc and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines potential measures that DoD should take to sustain nuclear forces, nuclear weapons capabilities, and supporting infrastructure. The Terms of Reference specified that emphasis be placed on (1) Sustaining nuclear weapons stockpile and developing needed capabilities, including delivery system capabilities, in light of arms control agreements, (2) the adequacy of the DOE Stockpile Stewardship for meeting: fixture DoD requirements, (3) the adequacy of the nuclear technical base, (4) fixture industrial base capability for nuclear deterrent forces and weapons, (5) options for future nuclear deterrent forces and stockpile, acquisition strategies, R & D timelines, manufacturing and production capabilities, common systems and/or subsystems. The report includes a number of specific recommendations in each of six key areas.
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Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills was chartered to assess all aspects of nuclear deterrent skills military, federal, and contractor and to recommended methods and strategies to maintain a right-sized, properly trained, and experienced work force to ensure the viability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent through 2020. As long as anyone in the world has or can acquire nuclear weapons, America must have nuclear deterrence expertise competent to avoid strategic surprise and respond to present and future challenges. There are many kinds of threats that demand national leadership, but no threat can put the nation's existence at risk as quickly and as chillingly as nuclear weapons. To say this is not to dismiss the seriousness of other threats. It simply acknowledges that since the dawn of the nuclear age, security from nuclear attack has been in a class of its own, and major national decisions on nuclear deterrence issues have been reserved for the President of the United States. Nuclear deterrence expertise is uniquely demanding. It cannot be acquired overnight or on the fly. It resides in a highly classified environment mandated by law, it crosses a number of disciplines and skills, and it involves implicit as well as explicit knowledge. Nuclear weapons expertise is necessary to design and build nuclear weapons, to plan and operate nuclear forces, and to design defense against nuclear attack. It is also necessary to analyze and understand foreign nuclear weapons programs, devise nuclear policies and strategies, deal with allies who depend on the American nuclear umbrella, prevent and counter nuclear proliferation, defeat nuclear terrorism, and in the event that a nuclear detonation takes place by accident or cold, hostile intent cope with the catastrophic consequences.
Book Synopsis Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence by : Keith B. Payne
Download or read book Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence written by Keith B. Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Institute for Public Policy’s new book, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, is the first of its kind. Dr. Keith Payne, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and an unparalleled bipartisan group of senior civilian and military experts critically examine eight basic assumptions of Minimum Deterrence against available evidence. In general, Minimum Deterrence does not fare well under the careful scrutiny. Proponents of a "Minimum Deterrent" US nuclear force posture believe that anywhere from a handful to a few hundred nuclear weapons are adequate to deter reliably and predictably any enemy from attacking the United States now and in the future. Because nuclear weapons are so destructive, their thinking goes, no foreign leader would dare challenge US capabilities. The benefits, advocates claim, of reducing US nuclear weapons to the "minimum" level needed are: better relations with Russia and China, reinforcement of the arms control and Nonproliferation Treaty, billions of defense dollars in savings, and greater international stability on the way to "nuclear zero." As political pressure builds to pursue this vision of minimum US deterrence, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence stands as the seminal study to address the many claims of great benefit using available evidence. This book was published as a special issue of Comparative Strategy.
Download or read book Deterrence written by A. Lowther and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume moves beyond Cold War deterrence theory to show the many ways in which deterrence is applicable to contemporary security: in space, in cyberspace, and against non-state actors. It also examines the role of nuclear deterrence in the twenty-first century and reaches surprising conclusions.
Book Synopsis The Nuclear Weapons Effects National Enterprise by : Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
Download or read book The Nuclear Weapons Effects National Enterprise written by Office of the Under Secretary of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actions-both by others and of our own doing-are combining to create potentially tragic consequences on military operations involving the effects of nuclear weapons on the survivability of critical systems for mission assurance. * Regional proliferation risks are growing, accompanied by nation state policy and doctrine that acknowledge limited nuclear use as a legitimate war fighting option. * U.S. counters, especially defensive measures to ensure continued operations in radiation environments, are being reduced-by our own choices. * Intelligence resources are focused elsewhere. * Leadership is poorly educated on military operations in nuclear environments. * The reliance on commercial off-the-shelf components in U.S. military systems has grown while nuclear survivability requirements, testing, and evaluation have declined-both dramatically. As a result, the nation lacks a clear understanding of the response to nuclear radiation exposure of general purpose forces, the Global Information Grid (GIG) and the GIG-edge, and critical infrastructure on which the Department of Defense (DOD) relies. Moreover, the technical expertise and infrastructure to help remedy the situation has decayed significantly. Investments in addressing nuclear survivability have declined precipitously. How did this atrophy of attention and capability come about? The root causes seem to lie deep in the corporate point of view among DOD leadership that has developed since the end of the Cold War about these matters. A number of factors have contributed. Nuclear weapons have not been used, other than in deterrence, for over sixty years. And for the past twenty years, even the deterrent uses have been less immediate and direct, and have seemed less important than before. Since the first Gulf War, conventional operations of great difficulty and importance have consumed DOD and national attention, and have displaced nuclear deterrence as the reigning paradigm. Furthermore, there seems to be widespread belief that the United States will be able to deter enemy use of nuclear weapons.
Book Synopsis The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence by : Stephen J. Cimbala
Download or read book The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence written by Stephen J. Cimbala and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As proven by the recent discovery of ongoing research and tests in India and Pakistan, the nuclear age is not dead. Nuclear weapons, deployed in plentiful numbers during the Cold War by the Americans and Soviets, and, in lesser numbers, by others, were nevertheless controlled in their use by the essential equivalence, of U.S. and Soviet strategic power and by the ability of the U.S. and the Soviet Union to dominate the international security environment by means of their global military power. Now the setting within which nuclear weapons exist has been transformed. Now that the Cold War has ended, and the Soviet Union has vanished, states seeking nuclear weapons operate under decision making rules that are sometimes opaque to Western observers. If the end of the Cold War leads to the unrestrained spread of nuclear weapons, Cimbala stresses that a combination of military hubris and arms control insolvency could lead to new nuclear crises or worse. The author provides a provocative analysis for policy makers and professional military staff as well as scholars and researchers involved with international relations, security studies, and arms control.
Book Synopsis The New Nuclear Disorder by : Stephen J. Cimbala
Download or read book The New Nuclear Disorder written by Stephen J. Cimbala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, the United States confronts an international system of great complexity and shifting security challenges. Among these challenges are those posed by nuclear weapons. Instead of becoming obsolete or being marginalized by the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, nuclear weapons have become more important to present and future international stability and peace but the relationship is paradoxical. On one hand, the spread of nuclear weapons to additional states with unsettled grievances or hegemonic ambitions threatens to destabilize local balances of power and set off regional arms races. In addition, the possible acquisition by terrorists of nuclear weapons or fissile materials creates a threat that may be ’beyond deterrence’ according to hitherto accepted concepts. On the other hand, nuclear weapons in the hands of other states can contribute to stable deterrence and help to prevent nuclear proliferation to international miscreants. Certain cases loom large in the short run that highlight this book’s relevance, including the possible acquisition and deployment of nuclear weapons by Iran and the continuing tensions created by North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. The Obama ’pivot’ of national security and defense emphasis to Asia reflects not only the growing economic importance of that region, but also the growing number of security dilemmas in a region that is already awash in nuclear forces. The management of nuclear crises and even the possible need to terminate nuclear wars before they expand beyond a single region are among the possible challenges facing future U.S. and allied policy makers and military leaders.
Book Synopsis Understanding Deterrence by : Keith B. Payne
Download or read book Understanding Deterrence written by Keith B. Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the rational actor model served as the preferred guide for U.S. deterrence policy. It has been a convenient and comforting guide because it requires little detailed knowledge of an opponent’s unique decision-making process and yet typically provides confident generalizations about how deterrence works. The model tends to postulate common decision-making parameters across the globe to reach generalizations about how deterrence will function and the types of forces that will be "stabilizing" or "destabilizing." Yet a broad spectrum of unique factors can influence an opponent’s perceptions and his calculations, and these are not easily captured by the rational actor model. The absence of uniformity means there can be very few deterrence generalizations generated by the use of the rational actor model that are applicable to the entire range of opponents. Understanding Deterrence considers how factors such as psychology, history, religion, ideology, geography, political structure, culture, proliferation and geopolitics can shape a leadership’s decision-making process, in ways that are specific and unique to each opponent. Understanding Deterrence demonstrates how using a multidisciplinary approach to deterrence analysis can better identify and assess factors that influence an opponent’s decision-making process. This identification and assessment process can facilitate the tailoring of deterrence strategies to specific purposes and result in a higher likelihood of success than strategies guided by the generalizations about opponent decision-making typically contained in the rational actor model. This book was published as a special issue of Comparative Strategy.
Download or read book Deadly Logic written by Philip Green and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
