Moving Targets

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Anti-ballistic missile
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Anti-satellite weapon
Arms control
Assured destruction
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Ballistic missile
Ballistic missile submarine
Calculation
Capability (systems engineering)
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Civil defense
Counterforce
Countermeasure
Crisis management
Criticism
Cruise missile
Cuban Missile Crisis
Decapitation
Decapitation strike
Deterrence theory
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Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)
Intelligence agency
International security
John F. Kennedy
Military doctrine
Military operation
Military organization
Military policy
Military strategy
Missile
Mutual assured destruction
National Command Authority (Pakistan)
National security
Nikita Khrushchev
Nuclear peace
Nuclear power
Nuclear strategy
Nuclear triad
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear weapon
Nuclear weapons and the United States
Peacetime
Pre-emptive nuclear strike
Requirement
Robert McNamara
Schlesinger Doctrine
Second strike
Soviet Armed Forces
Soviet Military Power
Soviet Navy
Soviet Union
Strategic Air Command
Strategic bomber
Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Missile Troops
Submarine-launched ballistic missile
Superiority (short story)
Tactical nuclear weapon
Technology
Thermonuclear weapon
Trade-off
Uncertainty
United States Armed Forces
United States Department of Defense
War
Warning system
Warsaw Pact
Weapon
Weapon of mass destruction
Weapon system
World War II

Product details

  • ISBN 9780691023267
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Feb 1990
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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In what Stanley Hoffmann, writing in The New York Review of Books, has called a "fine analysis and critique of American targeting policies," Sagan looks more at the operational side of nuclear strategy than previous analysts have done, seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice.