An analysis of technical and policy drivers in Current U.S. nuclear weapons force structure
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Baker, Amanda, S. B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
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Dwight L. Williams.
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U.S. nuclear weapons force structure accounts for the number and types of strategic and nonstrategic weapon systems in various locations that comprise the nuclear arsenal. While exact numbers, locations, and detailed designs remain classified, motivations for the current and future of the nuclear arsenal is presented as a unique integration of logical technical and political information. The dynamic that results from military requirements, physical design limitations, and congressional response to balance deterrence with stockpile reductions has not produced the necessary level of change in the post-Cold War environment of the 21st century. As such, a stagnant position on nuclear weapons reductions diminishes the effect of U.S. global nonproliferation efforts.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-47).
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2008Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Nuclear Science and Engineering.