ESCALATION AND THE NUCLEAR OPTION

Abstract

A critical discussion of the prevalent consesus that general war can scarcely occur except through escalation from introducing nuclear weapons into lesser conflicts. The Memorandum proposes a systematic examination of this argument by considering special crisis situations in which hostilities might break out, determining at each critical point the real constraints on each side and the various possible options. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0624139

Entities

People

  • Bernard Brodie

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Geography
  • Hostility
  • Human Behavior
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Nuclear Bombs
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Recreation
  • United States
  • War
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Theoretical Analysis.