TY - BOOK ID - 77499500 TI - Deterrence in the second nuclear age PY - 1996 SN - 0813108950 0813119987 9780813148434 081314843X 9780813119984 9780813108957 PB - Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, DB - UniCat KW - Deterrence (Strategy) KW - World politics KW - #SBIB:054.AMDOC KW - #SBIB:327.5H22 KW - #SBIB:327.6H30 KW - Military policy KW - Psychology, Military KW - Strategy KW - First strike (Nuclear strategy) KW - Nuclear crisis stability KW - Ontwapeningsproblemen - bewapening KW - Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: periode 1945 - 1989 KW - United States KW - Military policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77499500 AB - Keith Payne begins by asking, ""Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?"" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's view, is that such policies will almost assuredly fail in the Second Nuclear Age -- a period in which direct nuclear threat between superpowers has been replaced by threats posed by regional ""rogue"" powers newly armed with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.The fundamental problem with deterrence theory is th ER -