Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance

by Betts, Richard K.

• ISBN13: 9780815709350
• ISBN10: 0815709358
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-07-01
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

A history of the international nuclear weapons situation from the late 1940s through the mid-1980s.

Author Biography

Richard K. Betts is a senior fellow in the Brookings Foreign Policy Studies program

Table of Contents

Risks, Threats, and Rationales	p. 1
Theory and Practice	p. 3
Analytical Issues	p. 16
Lower-Risk Cases	p. 22
The Berlin Blockade, 1948	p. 23
The Korean War, 1950-53	p. 31
Asian Crises, 1954-55	p. 48
Suez, 1956	p. 62
Lebanon and the Taiwan Straits, 1958	p. 66
Soviet-Chinese Border Clashes, 1969	p. 79
Higher-Risk Cases	p. 82
The Berlin Deadline Crisis, 1958-59	p. 83
The Berlin Aide-Memoire Crisis, 1961	p. 92
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962	p. 109
The Middle East War, 1973	p. 123
The Carter Doctrine, 1980	p. 129
Brinks and Balances: Interests, Vulnerability, Resolve	p. 132
Right Makes Might? The Balance of Interests and Resolve	p. 133
The Nuclear Balance before Parity: Myth of a Golden Age	p. 144
Did the Bomb Work "Both Ways"?	p. 172
Parity: Change, Continuity, Confusion	p. 180
Equivocal Views of Equivalence	p. 182
Parity and Nuclear First Use	p. 195
Is There a Future for Nuclear Coercion?	p. 212
The Past	p. 213
Future Cases?	p. 220
Index	p. 235
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