The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

"The questions [raised] about the sustainability of current American foreign policy thinking are particularly timely." —Wall Street Journal

The cold war ended decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of stat...