{"product_id":"9781501779053-best-defense","title":"The Best Defense","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolicy Alternatives for U.S. Nuclear Security from the 1950s to the 1990s\u003cbr\u003eThe Best Defense considers fundamental questions regarding the United States and the Soviet Union acquiring capabilities to destroy each other in a nuclear war. Was it inevitable? Or could they have agreed instead to address the nuclear danger through mutual emphasis on defenses? Might such an approach be a feasible option for nuclear powers in today's world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best Defense \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003econsiders fundamental questions regarding the United States and the Soviet Union acquiring capabilities to destroy each other in a nuclear war\u003c\/b\u003e. Was it inevitable? Or could they have agreed instead to address the nuclear danger through mutual emphasis on defenses? Might such an approach be a feasible option for nuclear powers in today's world?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Goldfischer looks at how figures including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Donald G. Brennan, Freeman Dyson, and Jonathan Schell advanced compelling arguments for seeking an arms control agreement favoring defenses against nuclear attack. First developed by Oppenheimer as an alternative to a dangerous reliance on strategic bombing and again proposed in the 1960s as preferable to basing arms control on \"mutual assured destruction,\" mutual defense emphasis was briefly adopted as a US arms control proposal when the cold war waned in the mid-1980s. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best Defense \u003c\/i\u003eoffers provocative explanations for why this approach was rejected and argues that the compelling need to protect populations makes mutual defense emphasis the most promising basis for an enduring nuclear arms control and disarmament regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55193812533622,"sku":"9781501779053","price":23.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36661461.jpg?v=1760661212","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781501779053-best-defense","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}