Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy - Sechser, Todd S. (University of Virginia) a Fuhrmann, Matthew (Texas A a M University)

Can nuclear weapons be used to blackmail other countries? The prevailing wisdom is that nuclear weapons are useful for coercion in world politics, but this book shows that this view is misguided. Nuclear weapons are useful mainly for deterrence and self-defense, not for coercion.