The United States, Russia and Nuclear Peace

This book analyzes the United States and Russia’s nuclear arms control and deterrence relationships and how these countries must lead current and prospective efforts to support future nuclear arms control and nonproliferation. The second nuclear age, foll

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The United States, Russia and Nuclear Peace

Stephen J. Cimbala

The United States, Russia and Nuclear Peace

Stephen J. Cimbala Distinguished Professor of Political Science Penn State University (Brandywine) Media, PA, USA

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Acknowledgments

I gratefully acknowledge many intellectual debts to colleagues who encouraged my work on this and other studies, who have offered informative critiques and thoughtful revisions of this or other works over the years, and who themselves have set higher academic standards for me to aspire to. These include: John Arquilla, Richard Betts, Bruce Blair, Stephen Blank, Paul Bracken, Joseph Collins, Jacquelyn Davis, Paul K. Davis, William Flavin, Peter Forster, Andrew Futter, Raymond Garthoff, Colin Gray, David Glantz, Jacob Kipp, Lawrence Korb, Adam Lowther, Roger McDermott, Olga Oliker, Keith Payne, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Pavel Podvig, Sam C.  Sarkesian, Gabi Siboni, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Timothy Thomas, Dale Walton and John Allen Williams. Special thanks are due to James Scouras and James Tritten, colleagues and erstwhile co-authors, for the use of analytical models originally developed by them, for purposes of this study. They are not responsible for any arguments or errors in this study. I am also especially grateful to Daniel Cohen, Martin Edmonds, William Eliason, David Glantz, W.  Michael Guillot, Alexander