| The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mas Destruction and Their Challenge to American Leadership Contributor(s): Lodal, Jan (Author), Gelb, Leslie H. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0876092741 ISBN-13: 9780876092743 Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: This provocative book argues that the United States is paying a high price for its dominance in the emergence of new chemical, biological, and nuclear threats. America's growing military, economic, and cultural preeminence motivates states to oppose American power through whatever means possible. Rogue states and terrorists can now obtain the technology to develop weapons of mass destruction. Only with the active cooperation of other states, especially U.N. Security Council members Russia, China, and France, can this threat be stopped. To get this cooperation, the United States will have to give up its " prompt retaliatory" nuclear war plans that if combined with needed limited antiballistic missile defenses, would give the United States a de facto nuclear first-strike capability and therefore absolute military dominance. The Price of Dominance recommends an integrated program of strategy, policy, arms control negotiations, and nuclear deployments to foster the necessary cooperation while retaining strong nuclear deterrence as the foundation of American security strategy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | International Relations - Arms Control |
| Dewey: 327.174 |
| LCCN: 00065604 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.47 lbs) 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume recommends an integrated programme of strategy, policy, arms-control negotiations and nuclear deployments to foster the necessary co-operation between America and other countries, while retaining strong nuclear deterrence as the foundation of American security strategy. |
