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Alliance Security: NATO and the No-First-Use Question
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This article is published in Foreign Affairs.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alliance & No first use.read more
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The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945
TL;DR: Tannenwald as discussed by the authors traces the rise of the nuclear taboo, the forces that produced it, and its influence on US leaders, and analyzes four critical instances where US leaders considered using nuclear weapons (Japan 1945, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War 1991).
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Measuring the European Conventional Balance: Coping with Complexity in Threat Assessment
TL;DR: Dunn and Staudenmaier as mentioned in this paper presented alternative military strategies for the future, which were substantially revised versions of competing views of the Center Region Conventional Balance (CRCB).
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Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in Europe
TL;DR: The No First Use (NFU) policy for nuclear weapons in Europe was first proposed by the Gang of Four in 1989 as discussed by the authors, who argued that if the conventional forces of the United States could not contain a Warsaw Pact offensive, they should accept defeat rather than turn to nuclear weapons.
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The Laws of Combat?: Lanchester Reexamined
TL;DR: The Lanchester's square law has a prominent place in the study of conventional warfare: they lie at the heart of many models of conventional combat, they appear to shed light on the quantity versus quality debate, and they provide a simple paradigm for understanding the dynamics of combat as discussed by the authors.
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A Nonlinear Dynamical Model of the Impact of SDI on the Arms Race
TL;DR: The results of the idealized model indicate that for most parameter combinations, the introduction of SDI systems leads to an extension of the offensive arms race rather than a transition to a defense-dominated strategic configuration.