The sheathed sword : from nuclear brink to no first use /: from nuclear brink to no first use. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volume editors, Prakash Menon, Aditya Ramanathan.
• Editors: Menon, Prakash; Ramanathan, Aditya
• Contents: Foreword by Ambassador Shivshankar MenonIntroduction Part I: Understanding the Role of Nuclear Weapons in Global SecurityChapter 1: Superpower and World Order: Colin S. GrayChapter 2: The Seven Deadly Sins of Nuclear Strategy Dogmata: Lt General (Dr) Prakash MenonChapter 3: Is Nuclear Deterrence a Cost-Effective Policy? Bruno TertraisChapter 4: Nuclear Weapons and the Global Security Environment: Rajesh BasrurChapter 5: Nuclear Weapons, Geopolitics, Emerging Technologies, and Oppositional Nationalism: Sadia TasleemPart II: The Uses and Perils of Nuclear WeaponsChapter 6: Nuclear Coercion: Evaluating Insights from Academic Scholarship: Walter C. Ladwig IIIChapter 7: Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War: Owen B. Toon, Alan Robock, Michael Mills and Lili Xia Part III: The Dilemmas of No First UseChapter 8: It's Time for a US No-First-Use Nuclear Policy: Nina Tannenwald Chapter 9: The Purposes of Nuclear Weapons: Rajesh Rajagopalan Chapter 10: Nuclear No First Use in Theory and Practice: Keir Lieber and Daryl PressPart IV: States, Nuclear Weapons, and the Prospects for Global No First Use Chapter 11: US Nuclear Strategy, No First Use, and the Return of Great Power Competition: Matthew Kroenig Chapter 12: Russia's Nuclear Doctrine Journey: Petr Topychkanov Chapter 13: Global No First Use: Less Possible, More Necessary? Russia's Nuclear Doctrine Journey: Damien Cusey and Olivier de FranceChapter 14: China's NFU as a Litmus Test for GFU: Lora Saalman Chapter 15: China's No First Use Policy and the Prospect of the Global No First Use Treaty: A Chinese Perspective: Zhong Ai Chapter 16: The Desirability and Feasibility of Global No First Use: An Indian Perspective: Manpreet SethiChapter 17: Israel and a 'No First Use' Declaration: Emily B. Landau Chapter 18: Deterrence Unsheathed: Pakistan and the Prospects of Global No First Use: Brigadier (Retd) Feroz Hassan KhanChapter 19: No First Use Policy of a New Nuclear Weapons State: The Case of North Korea: Jina Kim Chapter 20: Tokyo's Reluctance over NDU, For Now: Hirofumi Tosaki Chapter 21: On Turkey's Stance Towards Nuclear Weapons and Global No First Use: Mustafa Kibaroglu.
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Bloomsbury India
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 355.0217; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear crisis stability; Deterrence (Strategy)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789354356988
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