Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future
Edited by Dr. Stephen J. Blank.
November 2011
524 Pages
Brief Synopsis
This book presents several essays analyzing Russia’s extensive nuclear agenda and the issues connected with it. It deals with strategy, doctrine, European, Eurasian, and East Asian security agendas, as well as the central U.S.-Russia nuclear and arms control equations. This work brings together American, European, and Russian analysts to discuss Russia’s defense and conventional forces reforms and their impact on nuclear forces, doctrine, strategy, and the critical issues of Russian security policies toward the United States, Europe, and China. It also deals directly with the present and future roles of nuclear weapons in Russian defense policy and strategy.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Stephen J. Blank
Part I
1. Russian Nuclear and Conventional Weapons: The Broken Relationship
Dale R. Herspring
2. Russia’s Conventional Armed Forces: Reform and Nuclear Posture to 2020
Roger N. McDermott
Part II
3. Nuclear Weapons in Russian Strategy and Doctrine
Andrei Shoumikhin
4. Russia’s Security Relations with the United States: Futures Planned and Unplanned
Pavel K. Baev
5. Nuclear Weapons in Russian National Security Strategy
Nikolai Sokov
Part III
6. Caught between Scylla and Charybdis: The Relationship between Conventional and Nuclear Capabilities in Russian Military Thought
Daniel Goure
7. Russia and Nuclear Weapons
Stephen J. Blank
8. Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Current Policies and Future Trends
Richard Weitz
9. New START and Nonproliferation: Suitors or Separate Tables?
Stephen J. Cimbala
10. Russia’s Nuclear Posture and the Threat that Dare Not Speak its Name
Jacob W. Kipp
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