Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century: The New Disorder

ISBN-13: 9780415622240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 202 str.

Professor Stephen J. Cimbala

Opis

This text looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century. The book explores how nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age on account of their capability for destruction.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Alternative Nuclear Regimes  2. Technology Innovation and Deterrence in the Future  3. Nuclear Abolition or Limitation? Choices and Risks  4. Nuclear First Use: Facing the Inevitable, or Playing with Fire?  5. U.S.-Russian Nuclear Force Reductions after Bush: Prospects and Implications  6. The Far Side: Theoretical (and Practical) Nuclear Worlds Ahead  7. Nuclear Proliferation in Asia: Containment or Chaos?  8. Russia’s Undersea Nuclear Deterrent: Vanishing or Modernizing?  Conclusion

O autorze

Stephen J. Cimbala is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of numerous works in the fields of international security, defense studies, nuclear arms control and other topics. He has consulted for various US government agencies and defense contractors.