Striking First: A History of Thankfully Lost Opportunities

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-24

  Betts, Richard K ^a  

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EID: 0345256042     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2003.tb00414.x     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. For a discussion of preventive and preemptive war, see Richard K. Betts, Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1982), pp. 141–146
2. Betts, “Surprise Attack and Preemption,” in Graham T. Allison, Albert Carnesale, and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., eds. Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), pp. 54–79
3. Betts, “Suicide from Fear of Death?” Foreign Affairs 82 (January/February 2003), pp. 34–43.
4. Dan Reiter, “Exploding the Powder Keg Myth: Preemptive Wars Almost Never Happen,” International Security 20 (Fall 1995), pp. 5–34.
5. Richard K. Betts,“Nuclear Proliferation After Osirak,” Arms Control Today 11 (September 1981), pp. 1,2,7.
6. Marc Trachtenberg, History and Strategy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), pp. 103–18,132–46
7. C. L. Sulzberger, An Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963–1972 (New York: Macmillan, 1973), p. 463
8. Robert S. Litwak, “The New Calculus of Pre-emption,” Survival 44 (Winter 2002/2003), pp. 61–62
9. William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson, “Whether to ‘Strangle the Baby in the Cradle’: The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960–64,” International Security 25 (Winter 2000/2001), pp. 54–99
10. Robert M. Lawrence and William R. Van Cleave, “Assertive Disarmament,” National Review, September 10,1968, pp. 898–905.
11. Louis Henkin, Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Foreign Affairs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), ch. 6.