Going Nuclear Nuclear Proliferation and International Security in the 21st Century

Name: Going Nuclear Nuclear Proliferation and International Security in the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9780262524667

ISBN-10: 026252466X

ISBN-13: 9780262524667

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cotï¿½, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller

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The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the most significant challenges to global security in the twenty-first century. Limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials may be the key to preventing a nuclear war or a catastrophic act of nuclear terrorism. Going Nuclearoffers conceptual, historical, and analytical perspectives on current problems in controlling nuclear proliferation. It includes essays that examine why countries seek nuclear weapons as well as studies of the nuclear programs of India, Pakistan, and South Africa. The final section of the book offers recommendations for responding to the major contemporary proliferation challenges: keeping nuclear weapons and…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



The Contributors


Acknowledgments


Preface




Why States Build the Bomb


Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?


Three Models in Search of a Bomb



The Political Economy of Nuclear Restraint



Divining Nuclear Intentions


A Review Essay



Spreading Temptation


Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreements




The Sources and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia


India's Pathway to Pokhran II


The Prospects and Sources of New Delhi's Nuclear Weapons Program



Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program


Turning Points and Nuclear Choices



Nuclear Stability in South Asia



Ten Years of Instability in a Nuclear South Asia




Giving Up the Bomb?


The Rise and Fall of the South African Bomb



Never Say Never Again


Nuclear Reversal Revisited




Contemporary Proliferation Challenges


Nuclear Terrorism


A Strategy for Prevention



Proliferation Rings


New Challenges to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime



Ringing in Proliferation


How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Network



Osirak Redux?


Assessing Israeli Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities