This comprehensive account of post-war British and German policies towards nuclear weapons shows how these interacted in the context of alliance strategy. The author gives a detailed account of major episodes in the evolution of the alliance and its doctrine, such as the MLF debate, the origins of flexible response, and theatre modernization programmes, and demonstrates how British and German interests impinged upon these episodes. In all this, one of the lesser-known nuclear relationships within the alliance comes vividly into focus.

Britain, Germany, and Western Nuclear Strategy (Nuclear History Program)

History

Bluth, Christoph

Europe

Oxford University Press

Germany and the Future of European Security examines the impact of unification on German foreign and security policy, providing the first comprehensive analysis of how the unified Germany has adapted to the post-Cold War security environment. The book considers the development of Germany's understanding of the European security environment, Germany's national interests, its role in Europe and the international system and the policy instruments at its disposal. This provides a context for testing various views about the future of European security more generally.

Germany and the Future of European Security (University of Reading European and International Studies)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Christoph Bluth presents an original analysis of the buildup of strategic forces from the death of Stalin to the SALT I agreement. The author outlines Soviet strategic arms policy, identifies the principal interest groups involved, and studies a number of critical decisions taken in relation to strategic bombers, ICBMs, strategic nuclear forces based at sea, ballistic missile defense, and the military uses of space. As well as examining external threat assessment and wider foreign policy, the author pays particular attention to the role of domestic factors such as Khrushchev's endeavors to shift resources away from military industries to agriculture and consumer goods production. Therefore he is able to demonstrate how domestic priorities and internal power struggles account for the seeming inconsistencies of Soviet military and foreign policy.

Soviet Strategic Arms Policy before SALT (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 83)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Cambridge University Press

Science & Math

Technology

Korea

Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the threat now posed to regional and international security by the regime of North Korea's dear leader Kim Jong-Il. 
This book penetrates the veil surrounding the conflict on the Korean peninsula and North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes. It provides a thorough historical analysis of relations between the two Koreas since the Korean War, which traces both North Korea's path to economic ruin and South Korea's transition from struggling dictatorship to vibrant democracy. As well as examining the political and economic development of North and South Korea at the domestic level, the book goes on to explore regional relations with Russia, China and Japan and, most importantly, America's dealings with Korea and its negotiations with North Korea, in particular. It concludes with an analysis of North Korea's current nuclear programme and its likely impact on international security in the 21st century.

Asia

Polity

The Nuclear Challenge: US-Russian Strategic Relations After the Cold War (Routledge Revivals)

This title was first piblished in 2000: Christoph Bluth provides a comprehensive and timely analysis of strategic nuclear arms policy in the United States and Russia and examines the collaborative efforts to reduce nuclear weapons through arms control and render nuclear weapons and fissile materials in Russia secure. He concludes that the end of the Cold War has created new and unprecedented dangers and that these dangers require a greater political will and cooperation which have so far been lacking.

Military

Routledge

This title was first piblished in 2000:&nbsp; Christoph Bluth provides a comprehensive and timely analysis of strategic nuclear arms policy in the United States and Russia and examines the collaborative efforts to reduce nuclear weapons through arms control and render nuclear weapons and fissile materials in Russia secure. He concludes that the end of the Cold War has created new and unprecedented dangers and that these dangers require a greater political will and cooperation which have so far been lacking.

Up-dated and significantly expanded on the 2000 edition, Bluth provides a detailed analysis of the role of nuclear weapons in the international system of the 21st century, US-Russian strategic relations, arms control and co-operative threat reduction and considers the policies of other nuclear powers. Finally there is in-depth analysis of the problem of nuclear proliferation using country case studies to assess prospects for global cooperative threat reduction and denuclearization.

The Global Nuclear Challenge: Facing the 21st Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

For many in the West, North Korea is a secretive, reclusive, and enigmatic country, a rogue state that threatens the world with its nuclear program and ballistic missiles. Confronted with its numerous provocations involving nuclear tests and missile launches, however, the international community still has not formulated a coherent response. So how do we understand the crisis on the Korean peninsula that has persisted well beyond the end of the Cold War? Christoph Bluth presents an in-depth analytical account of North Korea’s development from a Soviet satellite to a failed state in the post–Cold War period. He also explains South Korea’s transition from a military dictatorship to a modern democracy with a thriving economy. Based on interviews with key policymakers and experts located in South Korea, Bluth’s study throws light on Korean hopes for unification and the future of the U.S.–Republic of Korea alliance. U.S. policy toward North Korea has been politically controversial, with some supporting engagement and negotiations, and others calling for isolating the regime on the basis that it cannot be trusted. Neither approach will work, according to Bluth, who explains that North Korea’s foreign and security policy is the result of both the internal and external threats to the survival of a regime that can no longer sustain itself. A suitable text for undergraduates as well as postgraduates, this book will be of interest to anyone with an interest in Korea, international security, and, in particular, nuclear nonproliferation.

Crisis on the Korean Peninsula

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Britain, Germany, and Western Nuclear Strategy (Nuclear History Program)

Germany and the Future of European Security (University of Reading European and International Studies)

Soviet Strategic Arms Policy before SALT (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 83)

Soviet Strategic Arms Policy before SALT (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 83)

Korea

Korea

The Nuclear Challenge: US-Russian Strategic Relations After the Cold War (Routledge Revivals)

The Nuclear Challenge: US-Russian Strategic Relations After the Cold War (Routledge Revivals)

The Global Nuclear Challenge: Facing the 21st Century

Crisis on the Korean Peninsula