TY - BOOK ID - 77884907 TI - Beyond nuclear thinking PY - 1990 SN - 1282851780 9786612851780 077356263X 9780773562639 0773507841 9780773507845 0773508023 9780773508026 9781282851788 6612851783 PB - MontreĢal : McGill-Queen's University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Deterrence (Strategy) KW - World politics KW - Coexistence (World politics) KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - Atomic weapons KW - Fusion weapons KW - Thermonuclear weapons KW - Weapons of mass destruction KW - No first use (Nuclear strategy) KW - Nuclear arms control KW - Nuclear disarmament KW - Nuclear warfare KW - Military policy KW - Psychology, Military KW - Strategy KW - First strike (Nuclear strategy) KW - Nuclear crisis stability KW - History. KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77884907 AB - Most of what is written on nuclear weapons concentrates, understandably, on the here and now: the nuclear threat is a central and continuing fact of modern history . But this is intellectually constricting, both for understanding the nuclear age and for making thoughtful political judgments. It is essential to recognize what we have inherited since 1945 and why people have thought about nuclear weapons in the way they have. In Beyond Nuclear Thinking, Robert Malcolmson analyses the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy since 1945, connecting the legacies of the past with the politics of the 1990s. The nuclear nation states still consider it legitimate to use the threat of nuclear weapons to achieve their own ends. Malcolmson explains why the doctrine of "deterrence" became so central to the political idea of security and reveals the confused nature of recent approaches to the pursuit of international security. Beyond Nuclear Thinking presents a non-technical and broadly based interpretation of important aspects of life and thought in the nuclear age. ER -