Security with Nuclear Weapons?: Different Perspectives on National Security

ISBN-13: 9780198278399 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 414 str.

Cowen Karp, Regina

Opis

The possibility of large reductions of nuclear weapons poses fundamental questions about the purpose of nuclear weapons. Why have some countries chosen to acquire nuclear weapons? How--and why--have these decisions been maintained over time? Why have some countries elected tp approach, but not cross, the nuclear threshold? This book examines the similarities and differences in political approaches to nuclear weapons both within and among three groups of countries: nuclear, non-nuclear, and threshold. Providing insight into the impact nuclear weapons have on national and international security, this analysis offers a comprehensive reassessment of the concept of nuclear security.

Recenzje

'a useful volume, not least because of some very intelligent analysis of the motives of states such as India, Pakistan and Israel' Paul Rogers, Bradford University, Global Security, Spring 1993

Spis treści

I. Introduction; Security with Nuclear Weapons? - Origins of the Query; II: The Nuclear Weapon States: William H. Kincade: The USA: Nuclear Decision-Making, 1939-89; Robert J. Art: The USA: Nuclear Weapons and Grand Strategy; Allen Lynch: The USSR: Nuclear Weapons and their Role in Security Policy; Sergei Koulik: The USSR: Aspects of Domestic and Strategic Nuclear Weapon Policy; Stuart Croft and Phil Williams: Great Britain; Klaus Schubert: France; Gerald Segal: China; III: The Nuclear Threshold States: George H. Quester: Nuclear threshold status: a brief analysis; Yair Evron: Israel; Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse: Argentina and Brazil; Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik: India and Pakistan; IV: The non-nuclear weapon states: Harald Muller: Non-nuclear weapon states: why Do They Exist?; John Barrett: Canada; Lars Wallin: Sweden