Alternative Nuclear Employment Policy/Technology. Considerations on 'Two-Sided' LNOs.

Abstract

This paper examines the danger of the Soviets using Limited Nuclear Options, including the case of a nuclear first use so as to affect the course of a stalled conventional conflict. It assesses implications of this possibility for the design of US LNOs as well as NATO strategy more generally. It considers alternate Soviet ends and means.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 31, 1984
Accession Number
ADA168377

Entities

People

  • Richard Brody

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Casualties
  • Classification
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Procurement
  • Second World War
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Strategic Security Studies