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The Role Of Nuclear Weapons
And Its Possible Future Missions

Igor SUTYAGIN

(Moscow, Russia - 1996)


Contents

GoChapter I. Origins Of Nuclear Strategies Of The "Nuclear Club" Members - Brief Overview


    GoI.1. The United States
    GoI.2. The Soviet Union
    GoI.3. The Great Britain
    GoI.4. France
    GoI.5. The People's Republic of China
    GoI.6. Other countries

GoChapter II. Nuclear Deterrence - The Clear Matter?

    GoII.1. Nuclear deterrence as an universal instrument
    GoII.2. How the West used nuclear weapons against itself
    GoII.3. The Soviet-Chinese conflict of 1969

GoChapter III. Can The Nuclear Deterrence Be Improved?

GoNotes

GoBibliography


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