Anticipating a Nuclear Iran

Jacquelyn Davis; Robert Pfaltzgraff  Jr.

Jacquelyn Davis and Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr.

Anticipating a Nuclear Iran

Challenges for U.S. Security

Columbia University Press | 2013

https://doi.org/10.7312/davi16622

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The strategic and political implications of an already-nuclear rogue power.

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Jacquelyn K. Davis is executive vice president of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc. She is a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, where she has cochaired several task forces, including one on Iran. She also serves on U.S. Europe Command's Senior Advisory Group.

Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr. is president of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc., which he cofounded in 1976, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

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Anticipating a Nuclear Iran is an important and sobering volume which should put to rest any suggestion that a nuclear Iran would be easily managed.

Paul Bracken, Yale University, and author of The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics:
The originality of Jacquelyn K. Davis and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr.'s book lies in its creative synthesis of historical, logical, and technology and force-structure trends into a coherent assessment of what a nuclear Iran means for the region and the world. They explain U.S. policy implications of an Iran with atomic weapons in a clear, insightful way.

James Stavridis, U.S. Navy (Ret.), and dean, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University:
This objective and dispassionate assessment of what a nuclear Iran might mean for U.S. security is must reading for the policy maker, the policy analyst, and the broader public policy community. The authors break new ground in their multifaceted discussion of Iran's nuclear program and its implications for deterrence dynamics in the complex twenty-first-century world. A brilliant work of policy scholarship.

Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor and author of The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate:
Anticipating a Nuclear Iran is a both spare and comprehensive guide concerning perhaps the most vexing security challenge of our time. It is a must-read for the defense and diplomatic communities.

Ilan Berman, vice president, American Foreign Policy Council:
Davis and Pfaltzgraff have chosen to tackle a subject few others have: that Iran might actually succeed in its quest to get 'the bomb' and how it might behave as a result. Their assessment will prove invaluable to U.S. policy makers, who are forced, by necessity, to think about the 'day after' Iran goes nuclear and what that might mean for U.S. policy.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
CONTENTS Free access PDF PDF	vii
TABLES AND BOXES Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	ix
PREFACE Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xi
1. Introduction: Setting the Scene for Iran’s Emergence as a Nuclear Power Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
2. The Deterrence Dynamics of an Iran with Nuclear Weapons Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	26
3. Considerations Influencing Iran’s Nuclear Emergence Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	56
4. Nuclear Weapons Operationalization: What Type of Nuclear Force? Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	74
5. Implications for U.S. Strategic and Operational Planning Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	93
6. U.S. Deterrence Planning in the Event of an Iranian Nuclear Breakout Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	114
7. Dealing with a Nuclear Iran and Asymmetric Challenges Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	141
8. U.S. Deterrence Planning and Iran Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	153
NOTES Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	163
INDEX Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	215

Anticipating a Nuclear Iran

Challenges for U.S. Security

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