The Second Nuclear Age
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781555873318
Subjects: Arms negotiation & control; Central government policies; Nuclear Weapons; Politics / Current Events; Military Policy; Political Science; World politics; Politics/International Relations; Weapons of mass destruction; International Relations - Arms Control; International Relations - General; 1989-; Security, International
Description: "Colin Gray returns nuclear weapons to the center stage of international politics."--BOOK JACKET. "Taking issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control, and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Gray argues that the risk posed by WMD is ever more serious. Policy that ignores the present nuclear age, he cautions, is policy that ignores reality."--BOOK JACKET.

"Gray's iconoclastic analysis, which includes a rigorous examination of the major policy and conceptual issues associated with WMD, criticizes traditional approaches to nonproliferation and assaults as fallacious both the aspiration to "abolish" or "marginalize" nuclear weapons and the idea that there is a "nuclear taboo" in universal operation. The Second Nuclear Age dares to specify the policy merit in nuclear weapons today."--BOOK JACKET.