Limited Nuclear War
Dissecting the Idea of 'Limited' Nuclear War
The idea of limited nuclear war emerged to address the perceived limitations of deterrence premised on mutual assured destruction (MAD). As the ...
Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are ...
LOOKING BACK: The Limits of Limited Nuclear War
The Bush administration has put forward policy documents that seem to suggest that nuclear weapons can be used as limited war-fighting tools.
'Limited' Tactical Nuclear Weapons Would Be Catastrophic
On the other side of the ledger, NATO's nuclear weapons presumably deter Russia from expanding the war to NATO countries, such as Poland, ...
Limited Nuclear War - Program on Science and Global Security
The U.S. may be committing itself to preparing for a war limited to attacks on military bases, with relatively few civilian casualties. Would the casualties ...
Limited nuclear options (LNO) - Britannica
limited nuclear options (LNO), military strategy of the Cold War era that envisioned a direct confrontation between the two nuclear ...
New Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 million casualties in first ...
... nuclear war, including radioactive fallout and global cooling of the Earth's atmosphere, researchers add. Even a limited nuclear exchange between India and ...
On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century | Stanford University Press
The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer ...
Limited Nuclear War: The 21st Century Challenge for the United States
The problem of limited nuclear war must be understood as it exists in the current security environment, not as it was earlier. Toward this end, John Warden ...
Emerging U.S. Army Doctrine Dislocated with Nuclear-Armed ...
In the past, nuclear weapons have typically limited war, as the alternative was to escalate to a nuclear exchange. ... Considering most American peer adversaries ...
How even a limited nuclear war would destroy the planet
Led by Dr. Lili Xia of Rutgers University, this staggering report concludes that even a limited exchange of nuclear weapons between any two ...
Nuclear Famine: climate effects of regional nuclear war
... limited” or “regional” nuclear war would be neither limited nor regional. A war that detonated less than 1/20th of the world's nuclear weapons would still ...
Limited Nuclear War and Israel's National Strategy
Once Israel has decided (as it should) to shed its traditional policy of deliberate nuclear ambiguity, it will have to consider how to ...
The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review Report declares that “the threat of global nuclear war has become remote, but the risk of nuclear attack has increased.”2. It is.
Nuclear War: A Scenario - Arms Control Association
Another questionable assertion is that a “limited” nuclear war would stay limited. ... nuclear war: eliminating nuclear weapons. The Treaty ...
Even limited nuclear war would kills billions, study finds
A nuclear conflict involving less than 3% of the world's stockpiles could kill a third of the world's population within two years, ...
Russia's Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons and Its Views of Limited ...
The Soviets incorporated the early use of battlefield nuclear weapons into their planning for a war in Europe. Rather, Russian thinking differs ...
Deterring Russian Nuclear Threats with Low-Yield Nukes May ...
JAMS, Special Issue, 2022. Deterring Russian Nuclear Threats with Low-Yield Nukes May Encourage Limited Nuclear War. by Jeffrey Taylor. https://doi ...
On Assessing the Risk of Nuclear War
Given that the limited use of nuclear weapons is probably more likely than a massive nuclear war, there is a pressing need to understand these intangible ...
The Idea of 'Limited Nuclear War' - jstor
Nuclear deterrence by denial, or the projection of an ability to fight a limited nuclear war, seems to be back in fashion. Such a school of thought is known to ...