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“NUCLEAR DETERRENCE”

    1 Author(s):  ARVIND KUMAR

Vol -  6, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 49 - 63  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/RJSET

Abstract

The dropping of two Nuclear bombs nick named “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August, 1945 respectively brought to humanity a shock and rather than of degree. Deterrence theory gained increase prominence as a military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons. It took on a unique connotation during this time as an inferior nuclear force, by virtue of its extreme destructive power, could deter a more powerful adversary, provided that this force could be protected against destruction by a surprise attack. Deterrence is a strategy intended to dissuade an adversary from taking an action not yet started, or to prevent them from doing something that another state desires. A credible nuclear deterrence, Bernard Brodie wrote in 1959, must be always at the ready, yet never used.1

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2. Bernard Brodie, “Strategy In the Missile Age” (Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1959), p. 271.
3. John J, Mearsheimer, “Conventional Deterrence” (Ithaca and London Cornell University Press, 1985) P. 14.
4. Maj. Gen. D.K.Palit ”Essentials of Military Knowledge” (Dehradun: E.B.D. Publishing and Disturbing Co. 1968), . 203.
5. Henery Kissinger, “American Foreign Policy” (New York : W.W.Norton & Co., 1974), p. 15.
6. Harkabi, op.cit., p. 29.
7. Ibid., p. 30.
8. G.H.Synder, “Deterrence and Defence : Towards a Theory of National Security”, (Princeton, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1961), p.25.
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10. Herman Kahn, “Thinking About The Unthinkable “(New York: Horizon Press Inc., 1962), pp 111-112.
11. Y. Harkabi, op.cit, p. 10.
12. Bruce G. Blair, “Strategic Command and Control: Redefining The Nuclear Threat”, (Washington D.C. The Bookings Institution, 985), p. 16.
13. R.E. Osgood “NATO : The Entangling Alliance”, (Chicago : The Chicago University Press, 1962), p. 136.
14. Albert Wohlstetter, “The Delicate Balance of Terror”, The Foreign Affairs, Vol, 32, No. 2, January, 1959.
15. R.McNamara, “The Essence of Security”, (London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1968), p. 76.
16. Holt Rinehart and Winston Pragerm “Games Nations Play”, Spanier 1978, p. 78.
17. Quoted by Phil Williams in op.cit. p. 82.
18. Ibid, p. 83.           
19. Y. Harkabi, op. cit, p. I.
20. Carl Von Clausewitz, “On War”, edited by Anatol Rapoport (London: Penguin Books, 1968), p. 243.

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