The Last Great Nuclear Debate: NATO and Short-Range Nuclear Weapons in the 1980s

by T. Halverson

Overview

Fundamental changes in international relations during 1989-90 toppled the pillars of the security policy paradigm which had characterised the Cold War. That convulsion swept aside the last of many nuclear debates to rend NATO. Immediately the nuclear problems which had plagued the 1980s were tossed aside. Yet many important and interesting elements of the decade's nuclear history had not been fully explained. With the nuclear issue's rapid shift to irrelevancy, previously hidden information on the period became at once less secret and more easily available. Thus through extensive interviews with participants and careful analysis of open sources, missing parts of the puzzle emerged. This book is intended to provide a fuller explanation of NATO's last great nuclear debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333625385
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/20/1995
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thomas Halverson

Table of Contents

Preface - Introduction - NATO's Nuclear Strategy and Weapons - INF Arms Control Decisionmaking and the Responsibility Bargain - The Evolution and Destruction of Doctrinal Consensus 1980-1987 - An Untold Story: Civil-Military Tensions Over Nuclear Policy and the Reevaluation of Nuclear Requirements - The Last Great Nuclear Debate -Conclusion - Bibliography - Index