Strategic Impasse: Offense, Defense, and Deterrence Theory and Practice

by Stephen J. Cimbala

There is probably no area of more crucial concern nor one more subject to possible misunderstanding and riddled with paradox than nuclear weapons and their use, not only in war, but as deterrents to war. In Strategic Impasse, Cimbala examines the critical issues, problems, and paradoxes inherent in the current nuclear situation. It is from a fundamental contradiction--the usefulness of nuclear weapons versus the undesirability of nuclear war--that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031326516X
• ISBN13: 9780313265167
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"