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US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War

This book offers an in-depth examination of Americas nuclear weapons policy since the end of the Cold War.

Exploring nuclear forces structure, arms control, regional planning and the weapons production complex, the volume identifies competing sets of ideas about nuclear weapons and domestic political constraints on major shifts in policy. It provides a detailed analysis of the complex evolution of policy, the factors affecting policy formulation, competing understandings of the role of nuclear weapons in US national security discourse, and the likely future direction of policy. The book argues that US policy has not proceeded in a linear, rational and internally consistent direction, and that it entered a second post-Cold War phase under President George W. Bush. However, domestic political processes and lack of political and military interest in Americas nuclear forces have constrained major shifts in nuclear weapons policy.

This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, strategic studies and IR in general.

Nick Ritchie is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He is co-author of The Political Road to War with Iraq (Routledge 2006).

Routledge global security studies

Series editors: Aaron Karp, Regina Karp and Terry Terriff

1 Nuclear Proliferation and International Security
Sverre Lodgaard and Morten Bremer Maerli

2 Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict
Debating fourth-generation warfare
Terry Terriff, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp

3 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Responding to the challenge
Edited by Ian Bellany

4 Globalization and WMD Proliferation
Edited by James A. Russell and Jim J. Wirtz

5 Power Shifts, Strategy and War
Declining states and international conflict
Dong Sun Lee

6 Energy Security and Global Politics
The militarization of resource management
Edited by Daniel Moran and James A. Russell

7 US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War
Russians, rogues and domestic division
Nick Ritchie

US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War

Russians, rogues and domestic division

Nick Ritchie

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2009
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2009 Nick Ritchie

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ISBN13: 978-1-134-03643-1 ePub ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-46626-1 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-89225-9 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-46626-4 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-89225-1 (ebk)

For Scarlett, a joy.

Contents

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank his wonderful wife Sally, Professor Paul Rogers for his unswerving support, the Economic and Social Research Council for funding the doctoral research on which this book is based, the many people that facilitated the research, those that took time out of busy schedules to be interviewed, Andrew Humphrys at Taylor & Francis and the extraordinary wealth of knowledge, ideas and support at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University.

Acronyms

ABM	Anti-Ballistic Missile
ACDA	Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACI	Advanced Concepts Initiative
ACM	Advanced Cruise Missile
ALCM	Air-Launched Cruise Missile
ATSD(NBC)	Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs
BMD	Ballistic Missile Defence
C4ISR	Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
CPI	Counterproliferation Initiative
CTBT	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
DNA	Defense Nuclear Agency
DOD	Department of Defense
DOE	Department of Energy
DSB	Defense Science Board
DSWA	Defense Special Weapons Agency
DTRA	Defense Threat Reduction Agency
GAO	General Accounting Office
GLCM	Ground Launched Cruise Missile
GPALS	Global Protection Against Limited Strikes
HDBT	Hard and Deeply Buried Target
ICBM	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
INF	Intermediate Nuclear Forces
JCS	Joint Chiefs of Staff
LANL	Los Alamos National Laboratory
LLNL	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MIRV	Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicle
NAS	National Academy of Sciences
NMD	National Missile Defense
NNSA	National Nuclear Security Administration
NPR	Nuclear Posture Review
NPT	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NSA	Negative Security Assurance
NSPD	National Security Presidential Directive
NSS	National Security Strategy
NWC	Nuclear Weapons Council
OSD	Office of the Secretary of Defense
PDD	Presidential Decision Directive
PLYWD	Precision Low Yield Weapon Design
PNET	Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty
PNI	Presidential Nuclear Initiatives
PPBE	Programming Planning Budgeting and Execution system
QDR	Quadrennial Defense Review
RNEP	Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
SAC	Strategic Air Command
SALT	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SDI	Strategic Defense Initiative
SIOP	Single Integrated Operations Plan

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