No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security (Haney Foundation Series) by Thomas M. Nichols (PDF)

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For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America’s nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, the Chinese, and other major nuclear powers, continue to retain a deep faith in the political and military value of nuclear force, and this belief remains enshrined at the center of U.S. defense policy regardless of the radical changes that have taken place in international politics.In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols offers a lucid, accessible reexamination of the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy. Nichols explains why strategies built for the Cold War have survived into the twenty-first century, and he illustrates how America’s nearly unshakable belief in the utility of nuclear arms has hindered U.S. and international attempts to slow the nuclear programs of volatile regimes in North Korea and Iran. From a solid historical foundation, Nichols makes the compelling argument that to end the danger of worldwide nuclear holocaust, the United States must take the lead in abandoning unrealistic threats of nuclear force and then create a new and more stable approach to deterrence for the twenty-first century.

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Editorial Reviews: Review A level-headed, jargon-free rejection of false choices about our nuclear future. Tom Nichols has written a very fine book for newcomers to the Bomb as well as for those who have become too comfortable with its acquaintance. At a time when domestic political wrangles and seemingly intractable nuclear dilemmas abound, Nichols offers a thought-provoking argument for the United States to drop all pretense about the Bomb and to unilaterally adopt a posture of minimum nuclear deterrence. ― Michael Krepon, Cofounder of The Stimson CenterWith the end of the Cold War, many of us stopped thinking about nuclear weapons. Thomas Nichols explains why we had better pay attention, and his thoughtful and penetrating analysis will guide us in paying better attention. ― Robert Jervis, Columbia UniversityA succinct and well-written account of an important and much-debated national security issue. Nichols makes a convincing case for abandoning nuclear threats and relying on conventional deterrence and compellence to deal with nuclear proliferators. ― T. V. Paul, McGill UniversityA highly readable counternarrative to sixty years of prevailing wisdom about nuclear weapons and U.S. foreign policy. ― Jeffrey Lewis, Monterey Institute of International Studies Book Description In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols examines the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy, ultimately arguing that this belief in the utility of nuclear force is misguided and dangerously obsolete. About the Author Thomas M. Nichols is Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and author of Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press. Read more

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⭐A very straightforward and well-written book. A good resource in academic research, comes handy when you want to free yourself a bit from heavy realist works. Quite easy to read in comparison with classical nuclear stuff.

⭐An excellent, cohesive and rational writing of the history of nuclear policy and the need to reduce the stockpile to a minimal deterrent.

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