| Tactical Nuclear Weapons: The Debates within NATO |
| What are Tactical Nuclear
Weapons? Lance missile |
| Slide 3 |
| MADM warhead (1-15
kt) W54 SADM (.02-1kt, 163 lbs.) Atomic Demolition Munitions |
| Short-Range Aircraft A-7 Corsair II |
| Slide 6 |
| Background: the 1950s |
| Should NATO rely on tactical nuclear weapons to offset the Warsaw PactÕs conventional superiority? |
| Should NATO rely on tactical nuclear weapons to offset the Warsaw PactÕs conventional superiority? |
| Background: the 1960s-1970s |
| Issues in the late 1970s-1980s |
| ERW: the ÒNeutron BombÓ |
| ERW: the ÒNeutron BombÓ |
| Modernization of NATO INF |
| The ÒWinnable WarÓ |
| The Post-Cold War Era |
| Slide 17 |
| Sources |