Australia and the global strategic balance

Abstract

This monogtaph provides a comPrehensive account of the global strategic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union and Australia's connections to this relationship. It derribes the basic US and Soviet strategic nuclear policies and doctrines; assesses the current state of the strategic balance and provides some assessment of the likely state of the balance in the mid-190s, as proiected according to current trends and as it might look under some START regime; and provides a critique of Australia's involvement in the global balance. (An earlier version of this monograph was PrePared for a Confurence on Australin and the Worlil: Prologue anil Prospects, organised by the Strategic and Defence Shrdies Cenhe, The Australian National University, Canberra, &9 December 1988.)