The Soviet Leadership On Nuclear War
Published Date: April 1, 1987
Throughout the last decade, the Soviet politico-military leadership has provided startling evidence of a new Soviet doctrine on nuclear war. Leading Soviet military thinkers have themselves traced the origin of this phenomenon to evolving technological developments in both nuclear and conventional arms. This paper reviews the Soviet politico-military writing since 1977 in order to document these changes, which have grown more and more explicit since General Secretary L.I. Brezhnev's 1977 address at Tula.
