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8. Strategic Forces

 

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“U.S. and Russian/Soviet Strategic Nuclear Forces”, Arms Control Today (May 2001), http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_05/may01factfile.asp.

William R. Arkin and Robert S. Norris, The Internet and the Bomb: A Research Guide to Policy and Information about Nuclear Weapons (Washington, D.C.: Natural Resources Defense Council, April 1997), http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nuguide/guinx.asp#top.

Arms Control Association, "U.S. and Russian/Soviet Strategic Nuclear Forces," Arms Control today (May 2001), http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_05/may01/factfile.asp.

BASIC, NPR [Nuclear Posture Review] Point-Counterpoint, 2002, http://www.basicint.org/NPR-BASICbriefing.htm.

Bruce G. Blair, "De-Alerting Strategic Nuclear Forces," in The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-alerting of Nuclear Weapons, ed., Harold A. Feiveson (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1999), pp. 101-28.

Bruce Blair, Strategic Command and Control (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1985).

Glenn C. Buchan, ed., Future Roles of U.S. Nuclear Forces: Implications for U.S. Strategy (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2001).

Oleg Bukharin and Pavel L. Podvig, eds., Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Chinese Nuclear Forces, Nov/Dec 2000, p.78-79, http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/nd00nukenote.html.

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, French & British Nuclear Forces, 1999, July/Aug 1999, http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/ja99nukenote.html.

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Russian Nuclear Forces, 2001, May/June 2001, p.78-79, http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/mj01nukenote.html.

George Bunn, "Expanding Nuclear Options: Is the U.S. Negating its Non-Use Pledges?" Arms Control Today (May/June 1996), page 7.

Center for Arms Control, Energy & Environmental Studies, Command & Control System and Its Current Status, 1998, http://www.armscontrol.ru/reductions/ch3.htm.

Center for Defense Information, Likely Nuclear Arsenals Under the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (Moscow Treaty), http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/startab.html.

Thomas B. Cochran, Robert S. Norris, and Oleg A. Bukharin, Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yeltsin (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995).

Anthony H. Cordesman and Arleigh Burke, The Global Nuclear Balance: A Quantitative and Arms Control Analysis (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002), http://www.csis.org/burke/mb/GlobalNucBal020202.pdf.

Anthony H. Cordesman and Arleigh Burke, US and Russian Nuclear Forces and Arms Control After the US Nuclear Posture Review (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002), http://www.csis.org/burke/mb/USFSU011002.pdf.

Anthony H. Cordesman and Arleigh Burke, The Impact of the US Nuclear Posture Review: An Analysis (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002), http://www.csis.org/burke/mb/USnprOV011002.pdf.

David A. Foy, Standing on One Leg: The Future of the Russian Nuclear Triad (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air Command & Staff College, 1999), http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/doctrine/99-059.pdf.

Lawrence Freedman, "The Strategy of Hiroshima," Journal of Strategic Studies (May 1978), pp. 76-97.

Morton H. Halperin, “Defining ‘Eliminating Nuclear Weapons’”, Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 19 (October 1997), http://www.acronym.org.uk/19zero.htm.

International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance, 2000/1 (London: Oxford University Press, 2000).

John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994).

National Academy of Sciences, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997).

National Institute for Public Policy, Rationale & Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, 2001, http://www.nipp.org/Adobe/volume%201%20complete.pdf.

National Resources Defense Council, "Archive of Nuclear Data," http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datainx.asp.

National Resources Defense Council, "Taking Stock: Worldwide Nuclear Deployments 1998," http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/tkstock/tssum.asp.

National Resources Defense Council, The U.S. Nuclear War Plan: A Time for Change, http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/warplan/index.asp.

Robert S. Norris, Andrew S. Burrows, and Richard W. Fieldhouse, Nuclear Weapons Databook Vol. 5: British, French, and Chinese Nuclear Weapons (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).

Robert S. Norris and William Arkin, "Nuclear Notebook," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/nukenote.html.

J. D. Pollack, "The Future of China's Nuclear Weapons Policy," in John C. Hopkins and Weixing Hu, eds., Strategic Views From the Second Tier: The Nuclear Weapons Policies of France, Britain, and China (Transaction Publishing, 1995).

Phillip Sanders and Jing-dong Yuan, "China's Strategic Force Modernization: Issues and Implications," in Proliferation Challenges and Nonproliferation Opportunities for New Administrations, Occasional Paper No. 4 (Monterey, CA: Center for Nonproliferation Studies, July 2000), http://cns.miis.edu/cns/projects/eanp/conf/op4_sjd.pdf.

William Scott, "Aging Weapons and Staff Strain Nuclear Complex," Aviation Week and Space Technology (August 20, 2001), http://www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20010820/avi_stor.htm.

Stephen I. Schwartz, Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Washington D.C., Brookings Institution, 1998), http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/nucwcost/weapons.htm.

Kathryn R. Shultz, U.S. Nuclear Posture and Doctrine Since the End of the Cold War (Washington, D.C.: Center for Defense Information, 1996), http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/Berkrs96.html.

Nikolai Sokov, Russian Strategic Modernization: Past and Future (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

Stephen M. Younger, Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century, 2000, http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/doctrine/doe/younger.htm.

 



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