Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, provides in No Use a cogently argued and well-written, if not entirely original, overview of US nuclear policy dilemmas. Contending that 'nuclear weapons were an industry and an intellectual endeavor that escaped control in both East and West' (p. (ⅹⅰ)), he seeks to explain 'why it is so difficult for the major powers ... to break the nuclear addiction' (p. 5), and why the US in particular cannot 'reduce the centrality of nuclear weapons' in its national security strategy (p. 12).
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