TY - BOOK ID - 77900173 TI - On limited nuclear war in the 21st century AU - Larsen, Jeffrey Arthur AU - Kartchner, Kerry M PY - 2014 SN - 0804790914 9780804790918 9780804789127 0804789126 9780804790895 0804790892 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Limited war. KW - Nuclear warfare. KW - United States -- Military policy. KW - United States KW - Military policy KW - Nuclear warfare UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900173 AB - The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer ""rogue"" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when one of these states makes the conscious decision that using a nuclear weapon against the United States, its allies, or forward deployed forces in the context of a crisis or a regional conventional conflict may be in its interests. They assert that we are unprepared for these types of limited</I ER -