Change and Continuity in U.S. Efforts at Nuclear Non-proliferation from 1945 to 2000
Author : Wei Nam Oh
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Korea (North)
ISBN :
Author : Wei Nam Oh
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Korea (North)
ISBN :
Author : Darius Watson
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nuclear arms control
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Author : Alexandre Debs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1107108098
A comprehensive theory of the causes of nuclear proliferation, alongside an in-depth analysis of sixteen historical cases of nuclear development.
Author : Morten Bremer Mærli
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415420474
Nuclear weapons remain an essential part of the security policies of leading states. This volume assesses contemporary efforts to stem nuclear proliferation with a view to recommending better non-proliferation tools and strategies. It is of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, and international security in general.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : 9781921612145
Author : Wei Luo
Publisher : William S. Hein
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
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Author : David C. Gompert
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9780160915734
The second half of the 20th century featured a strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. That competition avoided World War III in part because during the 1950s, scholars like Henry Kissinger, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, and Albert Wohlstetter analyzed the fundamental nature of nuclear deterrence. Decades of arms control negotiations reinforced these early notions of stability and created a mutual understanding that allowed U.S.-Soviet competition to proceed without armed conflict. The first half of the 21st century will be dominated by the relationship between the United States and China. That relationship is likely to contain elements of both cooperation and competition. Territorial disputes such as those over Taiwan and the South China Sea will be an important feature of this competition, but both are traditional disputes, and traditional solutions suggest themselves. A more difficult set of issues relates to U.S.-Chinese competition and cooperation in three domains in which real strategic harm can be inflicted in the current era: nuclear, space, and cyber. Just as a clearer understanding of the fundamental principles of nuclear deterrence maintained adequate stability during the Cold War, a clearer understanding of the characteristics of these three domains can provide the underpinnings of strategic stability between the United States and China in the decades ahead. That is what this book is about.
Author : Jayantha Dhanapala
Publisher : United Nations Publications UNIDIR
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The author presided over the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference (NPTREC) in 1995, which decided to extend the treaty indefinitely. The conference also reviewed the performance of the treaty over the 1990-1995 period. This book is an analytical record of a major multilateral conference, involving 175 countries, that succeeded in adopting final decisions without a vote. With the 2005 review taking place in May 2005, amid major concerns over non-adherence to the treaty and non-disclosure by several states, this is a relevant dissection of elements that can lead to successful outcomes in such multilateral conferences.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 1428910336
Nearly 40 years after the concept of finite deterrence was popularized by the Johnson administration, nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) thinking appears to be in decline. The United States has rejected the notion that threatening population centers with nuclear attacks is a legitimate way to assure deterrence. Most recently, it withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an agreement based on MAD. American opposition to MAD also is reflected in the Bush administration's desire to develop smaller, more accurate nuclear weapons that would reduce the number of innocent civilians killed in a nuclear strike. Still, MAD is influential in a number of ways. First, other countries, like China, have not abandoned the idea that holding their adversaries' cities at risk is necessary to assure their own strategic security. Nor have U.S. and allied security officials and experts fully abandoned the idea. At a minimum, acquiring nuclear weapons is still viewed as being sensible to face off a hostile neighbor that might strike one's own cities. Thus, our diplomats have been warning China that Japan would be under tremendous pressure to go nuclear if North Korea persisted in acquiring a few crude weapons of its own. Similarly, Israeli officials have long argued, without criticism, that they would not be second in acquiring nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Indeed, given that Israelis surrounded by enemies that would not hesitate to destroy its population if they could, Washington finds Israel's retention of a significant nuclear capability totally "understandable."