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India's nuclear doctrine and policy

Strategic Analysis, 2001
Abstract India's “minimum credible nuclear deterrence” doctrine and “no first use” policy are based on the concept of deterrence by denial, rather than deterrence by punishment. Should deterrence ever break down, India will have to pay an. enormous, price for a nuclear first strike by an adversary before launching massive‐punitive retaliation.
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Obama Doctrine and Iran’s Nuclear Program

Tikrit Journal For Political Science, 2020
Iran’s nuclear issue has been one of the core issues of International politics. Concurrently, the issue of survival of the State of Israel and the threat perception of the US allies in the Middle East pushed Washington to attenuate  Iran’s inchoate nuclear policy.
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Pentagon Revamps Nuclear Doctrine

Physics Today, 2003
The US government’s plan to overturn a ban on designing new nuclear weapons is generating controversy.
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SALT and Soviet Nuclear Doctrine

International Security, 1978
The euphoria in some quarters of the American strategic community following the SALT I accords was largely based upon the inference that Soviet agreement to a virtual ABM ban signified fundamental agreement on strategic nuclear doctrine. Many concluded that this provided a hopeful basis for further collaboration in strategic nuclear arms control ...
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Soviet Nuclear Doctrine

1991
A debate has raged for many years over the true nature of Soviet thinking on nuclear war. Many influential strategic analysts have argued that Soviet nuclear doctrine is aggressive, guided by the central assumption that the USSR could fight and win a nuclear war.
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Catholic Doctrine and Nuclear Dogmatics

Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1983
Martin Luther once wrote, "If I preach the Gospel fully and completely, and in every particular, only excepting the besetting issue of the age, I might as well not preach it at all." Some idea like this may have been what led the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to prepare their pastoral letter on nuclear weapons.1 The fear of nuclear holocaust ...
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Changing Soviet Doctrine on Nuclear War [PDF]

open access: possible, 1986
Abstract : In January 1977, General Secretary L. I. Brezhnev delivered an address in the city of Tula whose impact on Soviet doctrine and capabilities continues to this day. By rejecting the possibility of a means of defense against nuclear weapons, or a damage-limiting capacity in nuclear war, Brezhnev closed the door on a debate that had lasted for ...
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India's Nuclear Doctrine: A Critical Analysis

Strategic Analysis, 2009
Abstract Although the broad contours of India's nuclear doctrine were announced within the days of May 1998 nuclear tests, the formal doctrine was made public only five years later. This article will critically examine the evolution of India's nuclear doctrine in terms of the 1999 Kargil conflict and the 2001–2002 military confrontation with Pakistan ...
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Just-War Doctrine in a Nuclear Context

Theological Studies, 1983
A SUSTAINED DEBATE continues over the moral issues of nuclear deterrence, defense, and arms control. Much attention has been given to the draft pastoral letters on this subject prepared by the NCCB Ad Hoc Committee on War and Peace. A final version of this letter is to be issued by the American Catholic bishops this spring.
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