The Sheathed Sword

From Nuclear Brink to No First Use

Prakash Menon, Aditya Ramanathan

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Bloomsbury Academic India
01 December 2022

Geopolitics; Nuclear weapons

After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs. Yet our current nuclear age will not be a replay of the Cold War. New technologies, changing political contexts and the death of old arms-control agreements mean that today’s nuclear strategists have to navigate unchartered waters filled with fresh perils. Unfortunately, the consequences of failure in the nuclear world can be catastrophic. The immediate imperative today is to lower the possibility of nuclear weapons use during a crisis or conflict involving nuclear powers. While deliberate or pre-emptive nuclear use is less likely, the rising danger of our time is that nuclear weapons will be employed due to some combination of miscommunication, misjudgment, misperception and sheer accident. The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use is a collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the role of nuclear weapons in global security. The contributors examine how individual states view nuclear weapons, the devastating effects of nuclear war on the world’s climate and the issues around nuclear no first use. They also debate the feasibility and desirability of a global no-first-use (GNFU) agreement.

Volume editor: Prakash Menon, Aditya Ramanathan
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9789354356933
ISBN 10: 9354356931
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 01 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Ambassador Shivshankar Menon Introduction Part I: Understanding the Role of Nuclear Weapons in Global Security Chapter 1: Superpower and World Order: Colin S. Gray Chapter 2: The Seven Deadly Sins of Nuclear Strategy Dogmata: Lt General (Dr) Prakash Menon Chapter 3: Is Nuclear Deterrence a Cost-Effective Policy? Bruno Tertrais Chapter 4: Nuclear Weapons and the Global Security Environment: Rajesh Basrur Chapter 5: Nuclear Weapons, Geopolitics, Emerging Technologies, and Oppositional Nationalism: Sadia Tasleem Part II: The Uses and Perils of Nuclear Weapons Chapter 6: Nuclear Coercion: Evaluating Insights from Academic Scholarship: Walter C. Ladwig III Chapter 7: Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War: Owen B. Toon, Alan Robock, Michael Mills and Lili Xia Part III: The Dilemmas of No First Use Chapter 8: It’s Time for a US No-First-Use Nuclear Policy: Nina Tannenwald Chapter 9: The Purposes of Nuclear Weapons: Rajesh Rajagopalan Chapter 10: Nuclear No First Use in Theory and Practice: Keir Lieber and Daryl Press Part IV: States, Nuclear Weapons, and the Prospects for Global No First Use Chapter 11: US Nuclear Strategy, No First Use, and the Return of Great Power Competition: Matthew Kroenig Chapter 12: Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine Journey: Petr Topychkanov Chapter 13: Global No First Use: Less Possible, More Necessary? Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine Journey: Damien Cusey and Olivier de France Chapter 14: China’s NFU as a Litmus Test for GFU: Lora Saalman Chapter 15: China’s No First Use Policy and the Prospect of the Global No First Use Treaty: A Chinese Perspective: Zhong Ai Chapter 16: The Desirability and Feasibility of Global No First Use: An Indian Perspective: Manpreet Sethi Chapter 17: Israel and a ‘No First Use’ Declaration: Emily B. Landau Chapter 18: Deterrence Unsheathed: Pakistan and the Prospects of Global No First Use: Brigadier (Retd) Feroz Hassan Khan Chapter 19: No First Use Policy of a New Nuclear Weapons State: The Case of North Korea: Jina Kim Chapter 20: Tokyo’s Reluctance over NDU, For Now: Hirofumi Tosaki Chapter 21: On Turkey’s Stance Towards Nuclear Weapons and Global No First Use: Mustafa Kibaroglu

Lt General (Dr) Prakash Menon is the Director of the Strategic Studies Programme at the Takshashila Institution. He is also Professor Emeritus at Trans Disciplinary University (TDU), Bengaluru and Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. Lt General Menon has a PhD from Madras University for his thesis, ‘Limited War and Nuclear Deterrence in the Indo-Pak Context’. He was appointed by the union cabinet as a member of an expert group for the creation of the Indian National Defence University. He has been decorated with three distinguished service awards—PVSM, AVSM and VSM. Aditya Ramanathan is a research analyst with the Takshashila Institution. A journalist by training, he has previously worked at Mint and as a freelancer. He has also researched and written on colonial-era Indian military history. Aditya has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. At Takhsashila, he works on issues relating strategic affairs and foreign policy. His current areas of focus include nuclear weapons policy and India’s evolving posture towards to the Arctic region.