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The text analyses the position, role and perception of mutual nuclear deterrence between the United States and the Russian Federation in the period after the end of the Cold War. The authors argue that the deterrence is still present in the Russian-American relationship, despite the fact, that its intensity significantly decreased. They come to conclusion that this feature of mutual relationship is going to be present in the foreseeable future as well as the ongoing debates.

This chapter explores major works of Sakyo Komatsu, one of the Founding Fathers of contemporary Japanese science fiction, with special emphasis on his 1964 novel The Day of Resurrection, along with Fukasaku Kinji's 1980 film adaptation Virus. While his first novel, The Japanese Apache (1964), narrates the way postwar Japanese have reconstructed their identity as cyborgian, this second novel, The Day of Resurrection, dramatizes how full-scale nuclear war is ignited by the possible coincidences between natural disaster and artificial disaster, which we were to witness nearly fifty years after original publication of the novel—in the multiple disasters in eastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The chapter also speculates on the transnational impacts of the novel upon Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain (1969) and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008).

This chapter contains sections titled: Value of War Planning Concept of War Institutional Capabilities The Spanish–American War and its Aftermath World War I The Interwar Period World War II The Cold War Era Post ‐ Cold War Now and into the Future The Dearth of War Planning Histories Bibliography

Although incomplete information is recognized to be an essential feature of crises, game-theoretic formulations have not generally modeled this explicitly. This paper models a mutually assured destruction (MAD) crisis as a game of sequential bargaining with incomplete information, sufficiently simple that its equibria may be found. These provide better game-theoretic foundations for the notions of resolve and critical risk and their role in crises and also make it possible to compare the bargaining dynamics of this model with those of descriptively richer, but incompletely specified models, revealing several inconsistencies: several analyses of MAD conclude that the state with the greatest resolve in this contest of resolve will prevail. Many models based on critical risks suggest that a state is less likely to escalate, the greater its adversary's resolve. In our model, however, the state with the weakest resolve sometimes prevails, and some states prove more likely to escalate if their adversaries' resolve is greater.