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" The nuclear tipping point : "
Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss, editors.
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BL
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984765
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The nuclear tipping point : : why states reconsider their nuclear choices /\ Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss, editors.
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Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (xii, 367 pages)
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0815796595
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0815713304
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0815713312
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1280812990
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9780815713302
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9780815713319
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9781280812996
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The nuclear tipping point : prospects for a world of many nuclear weapons states / Mitchell B. Reiss -- Reconsidering a nuclear future : why countries might cross over to the other side / Kurt M. Campbell -- Will the abstainers reconsider? : focusing on individual cases / Robert J. Einhorn -- Egypt : frustrated but still on a non-nuclear course / Robert J. Einhorn -- Syria : can the myth be maintained without nukes? / Ellen Laipson -- Saudi Arabia : the calculations of uncertainty / Thomas W. Lippman -- Turkey : nuclear choices amongst dangerous neighbors / Leon Fuerth -- Germany : the model case, a historical imperative / Jenifer Mackby and Walter B. Slocombe -- Japan : thinking the unthinkable / Kurt M. Campbell and Tsuyoshi Sunohara -- South Korea : the tyranny of geography and the vexations of history / Jonathan D. Pollack and Mitchell B. Reiss -- Taiwan's Hsin Chu program : deterrence, abandonment, and honor / Derek J. Mitchell -- Avoiding the tipping point : concluding observations / Kurt M. Campbell and Robert J. Einhorn.
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More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is the world approaching a tipping point that will unleash an epidemic of nuclear proliferation? Today many of the building blocks of a nuclear arsenal--scientific and engineering expertise, precision machine tools, software, design information--are more readily available than ever before. The nuclear pretensions of so-called rogue states and terrorist organizations are much discussed. But how firm is the resolve of those countries that historically have chosen to forswear nuclear weapons? A combination of changes in the international.
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National security.
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Nuclear nonproliferation.
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Security, International.
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National security.
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Nuclear nonproliferation.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- Arms Control.
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Security, International.
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327.1/747
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JZ5675.N848 2004eb
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Campbell, Kurt M.,1957-
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Einhorn, Robert J.
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Reiss, Mitchell.
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