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Authors:Glenn Buchan, David M. Matonick, Calvin Shipbaugh
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: implications, strategy, forces, nuclear, roles, future
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2003
ISBN-10: 0833029177
ISBN-13: 9780833029171
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been reexamining its basic assumptions about foreign policy and instruments of national security policy. This study examines the possible roles of nuclear weapons in contemporary U.S. national security policy. The U.S. nuclear forces are only somewhat reduced from what the nation has maintained for decades. It has a range of nuclear strategies and postures among which to choose: from abolition of U.S. nuclear weapons, aggressive reductions and
Author: Arjun Makhijani
Publisher: RDR Books
Keywords: free, policy, energy, nuclear, carbon, roadmap
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2007-11-15
ISBN-10: 157143173X
ISBN-13: 9781571431738
In a world confronting global climate change, political turmoil, weapons proliferation, nuclear power safety and waste disposal issues, the United States, argues Makhijani, must assume a key role in moving towards a zero-CO2 emissions energy economy. At the same time, he says, America also needs to take a lead in reducing the world’s reliance on nuclear power.This piercing study shows how our needs can best be met by alternative sources such as wind, solar, hydrogen, biomass, microalgae, geothermal, and wave power energy."Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free" is an invaluable reference for anyon
Author: R.J Rummel
Publisher: Llumina Press
Keywords: book, series, holocaust, nuclear
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2004-05-20
ISBN-10: 159526308X
ISBN-13: 9781595263087
A solution to war, nuclear holocaust and genocide? A secret society sends back, to 1906, two lovers to create a peaceful alternative universe--one that never experienced the horrors and atrocities of the twentieth century?
Authors:John F. Schank, Mark V. Arena, Paul DeLuca, Jessi
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: executive, summary, capabilities, design, nuclear, submarine, sustaining
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041614
ISBN-13: 9780833041616
For the first time since the design of the first nuclear submarine, the U.S. Navy has no nuclear submarine design program under way, which raises the possibility that design capability could be lost. Such a loss could result in higher costs and delays when the next submarine design is undertaken, as well as risks to system performance and safety. The authors estimate and compare the costs and delays of letting design capability erode vs. those of alternative means of managing the workload and workforce over the gap in design demand and beyond. The authors recommend that the Navy consider stret
Author: Mark Burles Abram N. Shulsky
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: china, patterns
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2000
ISBN-10: 0833028049
ISBN-13: 9780833028044
The People’s Republic of China has often used force in ways that surprised and perplexed other countries. The Chinese appear to believe that, by carefully designing military operations to achieve maximum political effect, they can successfully use force even when the overall military balance is unfavorable. China’s past successes in using force in this way while avoiding a massive reaction from its adversaries may give it confidence that it can succeed in the future as well. And China may feel that it can afford to accept greater risks. Many of the past uses of force occurred when
Author: Olga Oliker Tanya Charlick-Paley
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: states, air, force, united, implications, russia, decline, trends, assessing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 0833030957
ISBN-13: 9780833030955
Continuing trends toward military, political, economic, and social decline in Russia threaten the interests of the United States and its allies. Moscow’s capacity to govern is called into question by increasing crime and corruption (and by political and economic regionalization). Both the military nuclear arsenal and the civilian nuclear power sector present risks of materials theft or diversion, as well as of tragic accident. An increasingly aging and ailing population bodes ill for Russia’s future. Reversing the country’s economic decline and rebuilding an effective militar
