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This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds : historical, political, and moral. But, the author argues, it has not so far been informed by the experience of the United States since the Cold War in trying to adapt deterrence to a changed world, and to create the conditions that would allow further significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy and posture. Drawing on the author's experience in the making and implementation of U.S. policy in the Obama administration, this book examines that real world experience and finds important lessons for the disarmament enterprise. Central conclusions of the work are that other nuclear-armed states are not prepared to join the United States in making reductions, and that unilateral steps by the United States to disarm further would be harmful to its interests and those of its allies. The book ultimately argues in favor of patience and persistence in the implementation of a balanced approach to nuclear strategy that encompasses political efforts to reduce nuclear dangers along with military efforts to deter them.

Polemology --- anno 2000-2099 --- United States --- Afschrikking (Strategie) --- Deterrence (Strategy) --- Dissuasion (Stratégie) --- Nuclear weapons --- Government policy --- National security --- Military policy --- Foreign relations --- 21st century

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944.028 --- Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: François I; Henri II; Charles IX; Henri III--(1498-1589) --- Political culture --- Political customs and rites --- History --- France --- Politics and government --- 944.028 Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: François I; Henri II; Charles IX; Henri III--(1498-1589) --- Customs and rites, Political --- Political rituals --- Rituals, Political --- Manners and customs --- Political anthropology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Culture --- Political science

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Cold War --- Political aspects --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- United States --- Soviet Union --- History --- Foreign relations

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The author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy, arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism. Nietzsche takes up the problem of modernism by inventing Zarathustra, a self-styled cultural innovator who aspires to subvert the culture of modernity (the repressive culture of the 'last man') by creating new values. By showing how Zarathustra can become a creator of new values, notwithstanding the forces that hinder his will to innovate, Nietzsche answers the skeptic who proclaims that new-values creation is impossible. Zarathustra is a story of repeated clashes between Zarathustra's avant-garde, modernist intentions and figures of doubt who condemn those intentions.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm