Previous edition : 2003.

The arrival of the bomb -- The strategy of Hiroshima -- Offence and defence -- Aggression and retaliation --Strategy for an atomic monopoly -- Strategy for an atomic stalemate -- Massive retaliation -- Limited objectives -- Limited means -- The importance of being first -- Sputnik and the Soviet threat -- Soviet strategy after Stalin -- The technological arms race -- New sources of strategy -- The strategy of stable conflict -- Disarmament to arms control -- Operational nuclear strategy -- Krushchev's second-best deterrent -- Defending Europe -- No cities -- Assured destruction -- Britain's 'independent' nuclear guarantees -- A NATO nuclear force -- The unthinkable weapon -- China's paper tiger -- The Soviet approach to deterrence -- The McNamara legacy -- SALT, parity and the critique of MAD -- Actions and reactions -- Selective options -- ICBM vulnerability -- The rise of the anti-nuclear protest -- Strategic defences -- Soviet doctrines from Brezhnev to Gorbachev -- The end of the cold war -- Mutual assured safety -- Elimination of marginalization -- The second nuclear age -- The nuclear war on terror -- Proliferation : the Middle East and the Pacific -- The return of great power politics -- Primacy and maximum deterrence -- Can there be a nuclear strategy?