By: Steven P. Lee, Douglas MacLean (Editor)

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With the passing of the Cold War, a chapter in the history of nuclear deterrence has come to an end. Nuclear weapons remain, however, and nuclear deterrence will again be practiced. Rather than simply assume that the policy of deterrence has worked, we need to learn the proper lessons from history in order to ensure that its mistakes are not repeated. Professor Lee furnishes us with the kind of analysis that will enable us to learn those lessons.
This book is the first post-Cold War assessment of nuclear deterrence. It provides a comprehensive normative understanding of nuclear deterrence policy examining both its ethical and strategic dimensions. The book poses the question: What kind of nuclear policy if any deserves both moral and prudential endorsement?
Professor Lee distinguishes what is essential to the nuclear deterrence relationship, and thus what we can expect to encounter again, from what is accidental, and thus merely a function of the particular political relationship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. It is only by grasping this distinction that we can hope to manage the nuclear menace in the future.
The book is principally a work of philosophy but it is written to appeal to scholars and advanced students in political science, international relations, security studies, and peace studies.

"...the wisdom of both his approach and his conclusions speak for themselves. Lee's work is an encyclopedia of the literature on nuclear deterrence...a tour de force and a must for those interested in the nuclear deterrence debate." Concerned Philosophers for Peace Newsletter

Preface and acknowledgments
The difference nuclear weapons make	p. 1
Mutual vulnerability	p. 4
Nuclear war	p. 12
Nuclear deterrence	p. 23
The moral problem	p. 34
The consequences of nuclear deterrence	p. 36
Nuclear deterrence as hostage holding	p. 42
The nature of the moral dilemma	p. 59
Solving the moral problem	p. 77
The logic of deterrence	p. 82
Does nuclear deterrence work?	p. 83
Deterrence and deterrence effectiveness	p. 92
Legal deterrence	p. 99
The prudential problem	p. 110
Military deterrence	p. 111
Nuclear deterrence and conventional deterrence	p. 119
Does nuclear deterrence have marginal deterrent value?	p. 132
Defenses of nuclear deterrence	p. 143
Moral counterforce	p. 147
Counterforce strategy	p. 149
The moral claims of counterforce	p. 160
The effectiveness of moral counterforce	p. 164
The morality of effective counterforce	p. 175
Prudential counterforce	p. 182
Limited nuclear war	p. 187
A dilemma	p. 202
Crisis instability	p. 216
Madvocacy	p. 231
Extended deterrence	p. 235
Minimum deterrence	p. 249
Moral revisionists and existential moralists	p. 260
Noncrisis instability	p. 272
Nuclear deterrence - a triangular affair	p. 286
Conflict resolution	p. 293
Unilateralism	p. 295
Multilateralism	p. 300
Extrication	p. 309
Delegitimation	p. 317
Policy	p. 326
Notes	p. 335
Index	p. 409
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ISBN: 9780521382724
ISBN-10: 0521382726
Series: Cambridge Film Classics
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 436
Published: 26th March 1993
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.494  x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.885