Nuclear Command and Control in NATO: Nuclear Weapons Operations and the Strategy of Flexible Response

Nuclear Command and Control in NATO: Nuclear Weapons Operations and the Strategy of Flexible Response
ISBN-10
0230379109
ISBN-13
9780230379107
Category
Political Science
Pages
251
Language
English
Published
1995-12-18
Publisher
Springer
Author
S. Gregory

Description

For more than forty years NATO premised its defence on credible nuclear deterrence. Underwriting this deterrence was NATO's strategy and the nuclear weapons and command and control systems intended to make the strategy an operational reality. This book examines NATO's attempts between 1952 and 1990 to achieve the political and military control of nuclear weapons operations in a multinational organisation. By using case-studies of US, British, French and NATO nuclear weapons operations and empirical evidence from Cold War crises it provides an analysis of NATO's experience and offers insights for the present day.

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