The Current Nuclear Dialogue

Abstract

At the end of the Cold War the Soviet military threat to Western Europe disappeared, and with it the principal rationale for U.S. nuclear policy. Since then the United States has been searching for a coherent policy as a basis for planning future nuclear forces. This search involving a small circle of experts received little public attention until the recent nuclear tests by India and Pakistan dramatized the emergence of a new nuclear order with implications far beyond South Asia. However, the U.S. policy community remains deeply divided over the future role of nuclear weapons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA394126

Entities

People

  • Leon Sloss

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Biological Weapons
  • Cold War
  • Infrastructure
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Energy Levels
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • South Asia
  • Stockpiles
  • Strategic Weapons
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Strategic Security Studies