NIDS Perspectives 2
New Horizons of the Nuclear Age
Published August 23, 2024 by the National Institute for Defense Studies
Related Topics Nuclear Weapons Deterrence Arms Control
New Horizons of the Nuclear Age explores key issues in international security, focusing on nuclear weapons. It covers the revival of nuclear weapons, the three nuclear superpowers, nuclear proliferation and modernization, and the decline of arms control treaties. This book also addresses and analyzes following issues: revisiting strategic stability, compellence and nuclear weapons, new domains and nuclear weapon systems, and nuclear weapon policy and arms control.
New Horizons of the Nuclear Age is commercially published by Interbooks Co., Ltd.
| Table of Contents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | New Horizons of Nuclear Age | ICHIMASA Sukeyuki |
| Chapter 1 | Revisiting Strategic Stability
Focusing on Interactions between the Nuclear and Sub-nuclear Levels of Conflict |
KURITA Masahiro |
| Column: Two Schools of Thought on the Logic of Nuclear Strategy | MOTOYAMA Isao | |
| Chapter 2 | Compellence and Nuclear Weapons
A Study of Conditions for the Success of Proactive Nuclear Threats |
OHNISHI Ken |
| Column: Reputation as a Means of Deterrence and Compellence | MAEDA Yuji | |
| Chapter 3 | New Domains and Nuclear Weapons Systems
The Implications for Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control |
ARIE Koichi |
| Chapter 4 | Nuclear Weapon Policy and Nuclear Arms Control
A Reasonable Approach to Arms Control under Great Power Competition |
ICHIMASA Sukeyuki |
| Coffee Break: Nuclear Sharing | ICHIMASA Sukeyuki | |
| Column: Iran and the Nuclear Leverage of Non-Nuclear-Weapon States | YOSHIDA Tomoaki | |
| Conclusion | The Future of the “Second Nuclear Age” | ICHIMASA Sukeyuki |
| Editor and Contributors | ||
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