The second nuclear age: strategy, danger, and the new power politics

Introduction: the bomb returns for a second act

Part one: Enduring truths: game changer; a most useful weapon; lessons of the first nuclear age

Part two: The new power politics: the new logic of armageddon; the Middle East; South Asia; East Asia

Part three: The way forward: have we forgotten too much?; global dynamics; a fifty-year problem

Conclusion: the maturing second nuclear age.