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050		4	_aUA23 _b.B83 1994
100	1		_aBuchan, Glenn C. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aU.S. nuclear strategy for the post-Cold War era / _cGlenn C. Buchan.
264		1	_aSanta Monica, CA : _bRAND, _c1994.
300			_axvii, 83 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aThe dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact mandates fundamentally rethinking the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. military and foreign policy. This monograph represents a prescriptive and judgmental examination of U.S. options for revising its nuclear strategy and force structure in the post-Cold War era. The author argues that the United States should become less dependent upon nuclear weapons as instruments of policy. The challenge is to encourage nuclear forces to "wither away" while maintaining nuclear capability should the need arise. This study begins with a discussion of U.S. foreign policy objectives and how nuclear weapons are likely to fit in. It then focuses on the various "nuclear futures" that could evolve and how the United States ought to operate and employ nuclear forces in the future. Finally, it discusses the kind of nuclear forces the U.S. ought to maintain for the foreseeable future and how its overall nuclear strategy should develop.
530			_aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aStrategy.
651		0	_aUnited States _xMilitary policy.
710	2		_aRand Corporation.
856	4	1	_yOnline Access _uhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR420/
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