Soviet Offensive Strategic Nuclear Forces: Evolution and Prospects

Abstract

A fundamental assumption of various domestic critics of US strategic force acquisitions traditionally has been that the deployment of increasingly capable systems, justified in the name of maintaining the balance of deterrence, actually produces two deleterious consequences. The first is that we fuel the dangerous upward spiral of the arms race, forcing the Soviet Union to match US deployments with still more deadly weapons. The second consequence, which follows from the first, is that the acquisition by both superpower of such capable instruments of destruction presents a virtually insurmountable impediment to arms control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA521496

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  • John M. Weinstein

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  • United States Army War College

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  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Arms Control
  • Deployment
  • Information Operations
  • International Organizations
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  • Security
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

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