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No first use (Nuclear strategy)

Here are entered works on the principle that a military power, in the event of war, would not be the first to resort to the tactical or strategic use of nuclear weapons. Works on preemptive strategic nuclear attacks designed to destroy the enemy's strategic forces before they can be used against one's own strategic forces are entered under First strike (Nuclear strategy).

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• Deterrence (Strategy)

• First strike (Nuclear strategy)
• Nuclear weapons

• No first use (Nuclear strategy) -- Case studies

• Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Paul C. Avey (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Footnotes to History: Selected Speeches And Writings Of Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Founder of The School of Foreign Service (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), by Edmund A. Walsh, ed. by Anna Watkins (PDF at Georgetown)

• The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons (2003), by Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, contrib. by George P. Shultz (PDF files at Hoover Institution)
• The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by William A. Schwartz and Charles Derber (HTML at UC Press)
• Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards (2 volumes; 1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume I (main report): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II, part 1 (Appendixes I-V): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • Volume II, part 2 (Appendices VI-IX): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at fdlp.gov)

• Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009), by Albert J. Wohlstetter and Roberta Wohlstetter, ed. by Robert Zarate and Henry D. Sokolski (page images at HathiTrust)

• Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium (1994), by National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: Reactor-Related Options (1995), by National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942-1992 (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Rodney P. Carlisle, contrib. by Joan M. Zenzen (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Pallid Giant: A Tale of Yesterday and Tomorrow (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1927), by Pierrepont Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proliferation Concerns: Assessing U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Technologies in the Former Soviet Union, by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Paul C. Avey (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Jayita Sarkar (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Iran Nuclear Agreement and U.S. Exit (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2018), by Paul K. Kerr and Clayton Thomas (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• The Nuclear Energy Option (1990), by Bernard L. Cohen (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Nuclear Safeguards and the International Atomic Energy Agency (OTA-ISS-615; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at dtic.mil
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• The Virus House, by David John Cawdell Irving (zipped PDF with commentary at fpp.co.uk)

• The New World, 1939-1946 (first volume of an ongoing history of the United States Atomic Energy Commission; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962), by Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manhattan District History (36 volumes; redacted declassified version, released 2013), by Manhattan Engineer District, ed. by Gavin Hadden (PDF files at osti.gov)

• Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Jayita Sarkar (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks (OTA-ISC-559; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2004), ed. by Henry D. Sokolski and Patrick Clawson (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Capability and IAEA Inspections in Iraq: Joint Hearing before the Subcommittees on Europe and the Middle East and International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, June 29, 1993 (Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Israeli Aggression Against the Peaceful Nuclear Installations in Iraq: Statement Made by Dr. Sa'adoun Hammadi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Before the Security Council, 12 June 1981 (Baghdad: Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1981), by Sa'dun Hammadi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Operation Hardtack, Phase II, Project 26.1: Earth Motion Measurements (Washington: Office of Technical Services, 1961), by L. M. Swift, D. C. Sachs, and W. M. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test (1996), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear-Armed States Behave (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Mark Bell
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press

• Solzhenitsyn, the "Communist" Power, and the Answer to the SALT Delusion (1975), by George Spiro (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), by United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 11 Steps to Survival (1969 edition), by Canada Emergency Measures Organization (PDF at webpal.org)

• The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the DICE THROW Event (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1978), by Cresson H. Kearny and Conrad V. Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Project Trinity, 1945-1946, by Carl R. Maag and Steve Rohrer (Gutenberg text)

• U.S. Nuclear Policy in the 21st Century: A Fresh Look at National Strategy and Requirements (1998), by Center for Counterproliferation Research and Center for Global Security Research (page images at Google)

• Secret (Detroit: Chrysler Corp., 1947), by Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 (slightly updated version of GPO edition; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945 (Washington: GPO, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Many Uses of the Atom (Headline Series #117; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1956), by Waldemar Kaempffert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• I Have Been to the Village (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1948), by Daniel Q. Posin, contrib. by Albert Einstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomic Challenge (Headline Series #63; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1947), by William A. Higinbotham and Ernest Kidder Lindley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (aka the Acheson Report; 1946), by United States Department of State Committee on Atomic Energy, contrib. by Dean Acheson
  • page images at HathTtrust
  • reprint: PDF at cia.gov

More items available under broader and related terms at left.