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A Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK's decision to replace its Vanguard submarines, so-called Trident replacement. We challenge that decision via extending our geographical imaginations into the past, present, and future. Noting the more usual economic, moral, and strategic objections to Trident and its replacement, A Nuclear Refrain considers the issues from less familiar perspectives: the emotional and embodied, empire and the establishment, and the impact on democratic potentialities. Set against the authors' ongoing participation in extensive public protests against the UK's decision to replace Trident in 2016, A Nuclear Refrain disrupts familiar academic and policy forms of writing. It is "an uncomfortable hybrid between academia and fiction," intent on discomfiting the reader to spur the radical reimagining of a world profoundly shaped by the threat of nuclear weapons. Inspired by author and social critic Charles Dickens, this book draws on the form of A Christmas Carol. Transported by "ghosts" of the nuclear past, present and future, a pro-Trident British policy maker, the Right Honourable Roger C. Bezeeneos, has his perceptions sorely challenged. But will Roger allow his feelings to influence his decision-making? Will he recognize the yearning for empire-lost that mobilizes the British establishment? And will he admit the limiting of political participation that a commitment to nuclear deterrence determines? It's your call, Roger."

Nuclear weapons --- Sociology (General). --- Fiction. --- Nuclear weapons. --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare --- nuclear deterrence --- emotion --- empire --- democracy --- spatial fiction --- nuclear weapons --- disarmament

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To effectively manage an international crisis, the United States must balance its threats with restraint. It must posture forces in ways that deter aggression without implying that an attack is imminent, while limiting its own vulnerability to surprise attack. A RAND study sought to identify which long-range strike assets-strike fighters, bombers, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles-offer capabilities most conducive to stabilizing such crises.

Deterrence (Strategy). --- Intercontinental ballistic missiles -- United States. --- Jet fighter planes -- United States. --- Military planning -- United States. --- Strategic bombers -- United States. --- Strategic forces -- United States. --- Strategic weapons systems -- United States. --- Strategic forces --- Strategic weapons systems --- Deterrence (Strategy) --- Jet fighter planes --- Strategic bombers --- Intercontinental ballistic missiles --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Armies --- Military planning --- Nuclear crisis stability. --- Strategic weapon systems --- Long-range bombers --- Crisis stability (Nuclear warfare) --- Stability, Nuclear crisis --- Fighter jet planes --- ICBM --- SICBM --- Small ICBM --- Small intercontinental ballistic missiles --- Weapons systems --- Bombers --- Nuclear warfare --- Fighter planes --- Jet planes, Military --- Ballistic missiles --- Military policy --- Psychology, Military --- Strategy --- First strike (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear crisis stability

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In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world—a volatile mix of variables.The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger.The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again.Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegart

Security, International. --- Nuclear weapons --- Deterrence (Strategy) --- Balance of power. --- Political aspects. --- Military policy --- Psychology, Military --- Strategy --- First strike (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear crisis stability --- Power, Balance of --- Power politics --- International relations --- Political realism --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare --- Collective security --- International security --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Warfare & defence

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L’apparition de l’arme nucléaire a provoqué une rupture épistémologique évidente dans la pensée militaire et a imposé aux puissances qui détenaient cette arme, l’acquisition d’une culture stratégique spécifique. A un moment où le discours stratégique subit, en URSS, une profonde mutation, il convenait de s’interroger sur les sources et le processus d’élaboration de la première doctrine stratégique soviétique de l’ère nucléaire. Cette stratégie s’est le plus souvent résumée à la doctrine élaborée par le maréchal Sokolovskij, au début des années soixante. Or, l’exposé d’une doctrine ne surgit pos du néant mais résulte d’un long cheminement, tenant compte de contraintes d’ordre de politique intérieure, internationale et de l’idéologie dominante, spécifiques de la société soviétique. En renversant un certain nombre d’idées reçues telles la représentativité du manuel de Sokolovskij ou la perception de la menace principale, le présent ouvrage étudie ce cheminement depuis l’explosion de la première bombe atomique jusqu’à l’entrée de l’URSS dans la logique du nucléaire.

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Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation?s strategy for homeland security. This report provides a rigorous way to identify actions individuals can take to protect their health and safety. The authors detail a prospective individual?s strategy across four types of terrorist attacks-chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological-consisting of overarching goals and simple responses and preparations. The actions are designed to be sensitive to potential variations and defined in terms of simple rules that should be easy for individuals to adopt.

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