Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The nuclear revolution and the problem of credibility
- 3 The dynamics of nuclear brinkmanship
- 4 Stability and longer brinkmanship crises
- 5 Crisis stability in the nuclear age
- 6 Stability and the lack of control
- 7 The strategy of limited retaliation
- 8 An appraisal
- Appendix Some introductory notes on game theory
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The nuclear revolution and the problem of credibility
- 3 The dynamics of nuclear brinkmanship
- 4 Stability and longer brinkmanship crises
- 5 Crisis stability in the nuclear age
- 6 Stability and the lack of control
- 7 The strategy of limited retaliation
- 8 An appraisal
- Appendix Some introductory notes on game theory
- References
- Index
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- Nuclear Deterrence TheoryThe Search for Credibility, pp. 226 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990