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Deterrence

Its Past and Future - Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010

Deterrence( )
Editor: Shultz, George P.
Drell, Sidney D.
Goodby, James E.
ISBN:978-0-8179-1388-5
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:Hoover Institution Press
Book Format:Ebook
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Book Description:

Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment is radically different from that which it was during the cold war, the need is pressing to reassess the role of nuclear weapons in deterrence in the world of today and to look ahead to the future.

Book Details
Pages:464
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.892 Inches
Author Biography
(Editor)
Sidney David Drell was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 13, 1926. He received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1946 from Princeton University and a master's degree in physics in 1947 and a doctorate in physics in 1949 from the University of Illinois. After teaching at Stanford University for two years, he joined the physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He left in 1956 to work at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He was the deputy director there for almost 30 years.

He was one of the top advisers to the United States government on military technology and arms control. He received the Enrico Fermi Award for his life's work in 2000 and the National Medal of Science for his contributions to physics and his service to the government in 2013. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Electromagnetic Structure of Nucleons, Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons, The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment, In the Shadow of the Bomb: Physics and Arms Control, and The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons. He co-wrote several textbooks with the theoretical physicist James D. Bjorken including Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields. He died on December 21, 2016 at the age of 90.

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