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Acknowledgments

Author’s Note


Introduction: Why Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century?

1  A Short History of Nuclear Weapons

2  How Did We Arrive at the Theory of Mutually Assured Destruction?

3  Current Nuclear Arsenals

4  Targets and Targeting

5  Replacing Nuclear Weapons with Advanced Conventional Weapons

6  Nuclear Proliferation

7  Defense Against Nuclear Attack

8  Maintaining Our Nuclear Forces

9  The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century


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