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Does it make sense for the United States to cooperate with Russia to resolve international security issues? Is it possible for the two countries to work together to reduce the dangers associated with nuclear weapons? Where does Vladimir Putin fit into the calculus? Engaging the debate on these contentious issues, Stephen Cimbala provides context for and policy-relevant analysis of current US-Russian nuclear relations

Can we avoid nuclear war? Why are we more at risk today than at the end of the Cold War? Can the world powers work together to ensure international stability? Stephen Cimbala provides a comprehensive assessment of these complex issues, ranging from the prospects for nuclear abolition, to the management of nuclear crises, to the imperative need for nuclear arms control worldwide

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Charts -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Nuclear Learning from the Past: "Able Archer" and the 1983 War Scare -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Operation "RYAN" -- 1.3 Intermediate Missiles -- 1.4 Defense Shield -- 1.5 Korean Airliner -- 1.6 False Warning -- 1.7 NATO Exercise -- 1.8 The Sister Services -- 1.9 Soviet Nuclear Perspectives -- 1.10 Force Balances and Outcomes -- 1.11 Conclusions -- Chapter 2: New Start and Beyond: Nuclear Modernization and US-Russian Nuclear Arms Control -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Caveats -- 2.3 Reasons for Optimism? -- 2.4 Analysis Near and Far -- Evaluating the Forces -- Preliminary Verdict -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Missile Defenses and US-Russian Nuclear Arms Control: Technology, Politics and Deterrence -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Political Backsliding -- Putin's Challenge -- Drifting Toward Controversy -- 3.3 Technology and Defenses -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 4: China and Nuclear Arms Control -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Chinese Military Modernization and Nuclear Weapons -- 4.3 Methodology and Assessment -- Perspectives -- Data Analysis -- Implications -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Nuclear Arms Race in Asia: Challenges and Containment -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Actors and Strategies -- 5.3 What to Do About North Korea: Denuking and What Else? -- 5.4 Proliferation in Asia -- The Cast of Characters -- Forces and Outcomes -- Preliminary Findings and Indications -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Trump Administration's Nuclear Posture Review and Presidential Nuclear Prerogative -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Trump Nuclear Posture Review -- 6.3 Restraining Presidential Power: Nuclear First Strike and North Korea -- Preemption or Prevention? -- Decision-Making and Constitutional Process -- 6.4 Conclusion.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I The Endgame -- 1 Where Did All the Money Go? The 1980s US Defence Build-up and the End of the Cold War -- 2 The Pursuit of Order, Welfare and Legitimacy: Explaining the End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War -- 3 The Strange End of the Cold War: Views from the Former Superpower -- Part II Adjusting and Managing Cold War Conflict -- 4 The US-Soviet Tank Confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie -- 5 Intelligence and Disaster Avoidance: The Soviet War Scare and US-Soviet Relations -- Part III Technology and Strategy: The Search for Advantage -- 6 How the USA Came to Deploy Nuclear Weapons in Europe -- 7 High-tech Adventurism: A Soviet Laser Attack -- Part IV Strategy and the Cold War -- 8 US Maritime Strategy and the Cold War -- 9 Soviet Soldier-Internationalists in Support of Communist Revolutions -- 10 Adapting to Uncertainty: Soviet Military Strategy after the Great Patriotic War -- 11 Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index

The topic of civil-military relations has high significance for academics, for policy makers, for military commanders, and for serious students of public policy in democratic and other societies. The post-Cold War and post-9-11 worlds have thrown up traditional as well as new challenges to the effective management of armed forces and defense establishments. Further, the present century has seen a rising arc in the use of armed violence on the part of non-state actors, including terrorists, to considerable political effect. Civil-military relations in the United States, and their implications for US and allied security policies, is the focus of most discussions in this volume, but other contributions emphasize the comparative and cross-national dimensions of the relationship between the use or threat of force and public policy. Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations; the role perceptions of military professionals across generations; the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-challenged political systems; the usefulness of business models in military management; the attributes of civil-military relations during unconventional conflicts; the experience of the all-volunteer force and its meaning for US civil-military relations; and other topics. Contributors include civilian academic and policy analysts as well as military officers with considerable academic expertise and experience with the subject matter at hand.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Geography and Nuclear Arms Control -- 2 Anticipatory Attacks and Nuclear Weapons: Challenges to Deterrence and Crisis Stability -- 3 Nuclear Crisis Management in a Digital Age -- 4 Ending a Nuclear War: Deterring and Controlling Escalation -- 5 Cyber War and Nuclear Weapons -- 6 Tsar Wars and Star Wars: Missile Defense, Nuclear Arms Control and Putin -- 7 Nuclear Weapons in Asia: Perils and Promises -- 8 Nuclear Proliferation: Theory and Reality -- 9 Deterrence and Intelligence in Nuclear History: The 1983 "War Scare" -- 10 Armed Persuasion and Arms Control: Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, February 21-March 18, 2014 -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

1. Nuclear deterrence in a new context -- 2. Possible nuclear worlds -- 3. Getting rid of nuclear weapons -- 4. Controlling nuclear crises in digital times -- 5. Minimum deterrence : the fewer, the better? -- 6. Nuclear-strategic Asia : stability or chaos? -- 7. Non-strategic nuclear weapons and "first use" -- 8. Denuking North Korea -- 9. Ending a nuclear war -- 10. Missile defenses and NATO-Russian security.

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At the end of the Cold War security concerns are more about regional and civil conflicts than nuclear or Eurasian global wars. Stephen Cimbala argues that deterrence characteristics of the pre-Cold War period will in the 21st century again become normative.

This is the most comprehensive view of nuclear weapons policy and strategy currently available. The author's division of the nuclear issue into the three ages is a never seen before analytical construct. With President Obama reelected, the reduction and even elimination of nuclear weapons will now rise to the top of the agenda once more. Moreover, given the likelihood of reductions in US defense spending, the subject of the triad, which is covered in Chapter One, will no doubt be an important subject of debate, as will the issue of missile defense, covered in Chapter Ten.

Introduction -- Alternative nuclear regimes -- Cyberwar and nuclear crisis management -- Geography and nuclear arms control -- Nuclear abolition: holy grail or dangerous temptation? -- After the loving: new START and beyond -- Nuclear threat and North Korea: dangers and options -- Nuclear first use and European peace: a risky bargain? -- Minimum deterrence and missile defenses: congruent paths or competitive designs?.