The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear WeaponsHarold A. Feiveson Brookings Institution Press, 2010 M12 1 - 402 pages Despite the ongoing drawdown of strategic forces under the terms of START, both the United States and Russia maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons poised for immediate launch. Under the most optimistic current scenarios, these arsenals will remain very large and launch-ready for more than a decade. This book, by a distinguished group of coauthors, critically evaluates the current policy of retaining and operating large nuclear arsenals. It reviews U.S. nuclear doctrine and strategy, and the role of nuclear weapons in deterring aggression by former Cold War adversaries and other countries with weapons of mass destruction. The risks of inadvertent as well as deliberate nuclear attack are assessed. The authors argue that small arsenals (low hundreds) on low alert satisfy all justifiable requirements for nuclear weapons. They present a blueprint for making deep cuts in U.S. and Russian deployments, and for lowering their alert level. They explain the implications of shifting to small arsenals for further constraining anti-ballistic missile defenses, strengthening verification, and capping or reducing the nuclear arsenals of China, France, and Britain as well as the threshold nuclear states. The political challenges and opportunities, both domestic and international, for achieving deep reductions in the size and readiness of nuclear forces are analyzed by the authors and by distinguished experts from other countries. The coauthors are Bruce Blair, Jonathan Dean, James Goodby, Steve Fetter, Hal Feiveson, George Lewis, Janne Nolan, Theodore Postol, and Frank von Hippel. An appendix with international perspectives by Li Bin (China), Alexei Arbatov (Russia), Therese Delpech (France), Pervez Hoodbhoy (Pakistan), Shai Feldman (Israel), Harald Mueller (Germany), and Zia Mian and M.V. Ramana (South Asia). |
Contents
Nuclear Arms Control at a Crossroads | xiii |
A Strategy of Staged Reductions and Dealerting of Nuclear Forces | 11 |
Nuclear Strategy | 23 |
Limiting the Role of Nuclear Weapons | 25 |
Nuclear Strategy and Targeting Doctrine | 41 |
The Deep Cuts and Dealerting Program | 55 |
Ballistic Missile Defenses and Deep Reductions | 57 |
Dealerting Strategic Nuclear Forces | 95 |
Why Not Abolition? | 279 |
The Road to Abolition How Far Can We Go? | 281 |
International Perspectives | 297 |
Deep Cuts and Dealerting A Russian Perspective | 299 |
Chinas Nuclear Disarmament Policy | 319 |
New Stages of Nuclear Disarmament A European View | 327 |
A View from Germany | 335 |
A Nuclear Gordian Knot South Asia and the Limits of Deep Cuts | 347 |
Nuclear Forces under Staged Reductions | 123 |
Tactical and Reserve Nuclear Warheads | 153 |
Transparency and Irreversibility in Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement | 165 |
Completing the Deep Cuts Regime | 187 |
Verifying Deep Reductions in Nuclear Forces | 209 |
The Next Nuclear Posture Review? | 237 |
Pakistan and the Deep Cuts Regime | 363 |
Back to Sanity An Israeli View of the Effects of Deep Reductions | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 383 |
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