This book examines why despite the Cold War having ended more than ten years ago, the U.S. still maintains an arsenal of over 10,000 nuclear warheads. The major explanatory factors are to be found not in the structure of the international system but in domestic politics. Tom Sauer ascribes the lack of change to bureaucratic resistance, dogmatic thinking and lack of political leadership. Clinton's first Secretary of Defense tried to change US nuclear weapons policy by initiating the 1993-1994 Nuclear Posture Review but was blocked by lower-level bureaucratic opposition. Sauer suggests that this points to a lack of civilian control over the military during the Clinton administration and that parochial interests triumphed at the expense of national and international interests.
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"The book will be an important contribution to our understanding of the 1990s national security policies of the US and a careful reading of it will help analysts and other readers to better understand what gave rise to Bush Administration policies on nuclear weapons and why, despite common statements to this effect, they are not a major departure."--Patrick M. Morgan, Professor, University of California, Irvine Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies
"Tom Sauer's book makes important contributions to both the scholarly literature and our understanding of policy questions."--Michael Brown, Director of the Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
"Tom Sauer's book makes important contributions to both the scholarly literature and our understanding of policy questions."--Michael Brown, Director of the Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
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Tom Sauer is a post-doctoral research fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research and a lecturer at the Department of Politics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium
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Because of their unique destructive characteristics, nuclear weapons are paradoxically not perceived as real weapons to be used, but as instruments of deterrence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimum deterrence posture, nuclear weapons budget, massive attack options, nuclear policy review, regional nuclear adversaries, negative security guarantees, nuclear inertia, maximum deterrence, force structure policy, nuclear reform, nuclear turning point, nuclear elimination, nuclear bureaucracy, nuclear force structure, deterrence requirements, elusive consensus, deployed strategic nuclear weapons, nuclear posture review, zero alert, nuclear weapons policy, other nuclear weapon states, role for nuclear deterrence, presidential guidance, biological weapons attacks, first use policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
President Clinton, Ash Carter, Lee Butler, North Korea, President Bush, Les Aspin, State Department, Ashton Carter, Frank Miller, William Perry, John Deutch, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, National Security Advisor, Colin Powell, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Department of Energy, Bruce Blair, National Security Council, Single Integrated Operational Plan, White House, Gulf War, Walter Slocombe, Bob Bell, International Atomic Energy Agency, United States New!
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Because of their unique destructive characteristics, nuclear weapons are paradoxically not perceived as real weapons to be used, but as instruments of deterrence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimum deterrence posture, nuclear weapons budget, massive attack options, nuclear policy review, regional nuclear adversaries, negative security guarantees, nuclear inertia, maximum deterrence, force structure policy, nuclear reform, nuclear turning point, nuclear elimination, nuclear bureaucracy, nuclear force structure, deterrence requirements, elusive consensus, deployed strategic nuclear weapons, nuclear posture review, zero alert, nuclear weapons policy, other nuclear weapon states, role for nuclear deterrence, presidential guidance, biological weapons attacks, first use policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
President Clinton, Ash Carter, Lee Butler, North Korea, President Bush, Les Aspin, State Department, Ashton Carter, Frank Miller, William Perry, John Deutch, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, National Security Advisor, Colin Powell, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Department of Energy, Bruce Blair, National Security Council, Single Integrated Operational Plan, White House, Gulf War, Walter Slocombe, Bob Bell, International Atomic Energy Agency, United States New!
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- Cold War (Living Through History Series) by Stephen Ashton on 9 pages
- The Cold War (Cambridge Perspectives in History) by Mike Sewell on page 157, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Managing Nuclear Operations by Ashton B. Carter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- National Interest by David W. Clinton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bill Clinton (United States Presidents) by Paul Joseph on page 142, and Back Matter
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