Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: Transforming the U.S.-Russian Equation

For nearly fifty years, including the decade and a half since the end of the cold war, deterrence has remained the central nuclear arms control policy between the United States, Russia, and other principal nuclear powers. The question today is: Has the concept of deterrence outlived its usefulness? In Beyond Nuclear Deterrence, two of Russia’s top nonproliferation and international security experts critically assess the history of deterrence as it emerged between the Soviet Union and the United States and evolved through the cold war to include an expanding nuclear club.