This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of Nuclear Weapons in its security strategies and the number of Weapons in its arsenal.
The book ultimately argues in favor of patience and persistence in the implementation of a balanced approach to Nuclear strategy that encompasses political efforts to reduce Nuclear dangers along with military efforts to deter them..
Central conclusions of the work are that other nuclear-armed states are not prepared to join the United States in making reductions, and that unilateral steps by the United States to disarm further would be harmful to its interests and those of its allies. policy in the Obama administration, this book examines that real world experience and finds important lessons for the disarmament enterprise.
Drawing on the author\'s experience in the making and implementation of U.
S. Nuclear policy and posture.
But, Brad Roberts argues, it has not so far been informed by the experience of the United States since the Cold War in trying to adapt deterrence to a changed world, and to create the conditions that would allow further significant changes to U.
S.
The Case against Nuclear Weapons has been made on many grounds-including historical, political, and moral.
This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of Nuclear Weapons in its security strategies and the number of Weapons in its arsenal
