| Description |
1 online resource (186 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; ASIA, THE US AND EXTENDED NUCLEAR DETERRENCE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Extended nuclear deterrence: Frameworks and perspectives; 3 Asia's security, power transitions, and nuclear weapons; 4 South Korea and extended nuclear deterrence: Anxieties and asymmetry; 5 Japan and extended nuclear deterrence: Ambivalence over ambition; 6 Australia and extended nuclear deterrence: A search for existential security; 7 Extended nuclear deterrence in twenty-first-century Asia; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Since the end of the Cold War, significant attention has focussed on the issue of nuclear deterrence and in particular whether formal nuclear security guarantees from nuclear weapons states to non-nuclear weapons states involving the possible use of nuclear weapons have a place in the twenty-first century global strategic landscape. Growing support for nuclear disarmament in the US and elsewhere has seen serious doubts being raised about the ongoing utility of extended nuclear deterrence. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the way in which extended nuclear deterrence op |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nuclear weapons -- Asia
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Nuclear arms control -- Asia
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Security, International -- Asia
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Nuclear arms control
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Nuclear weapons
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Security, International
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136693601 |
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1136693602 |
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