A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable." The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with

In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new

"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the

Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protected by these