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UNINA9910450202903321 |
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Titolo |
The nuclear tipping point [[electronic resource] ] : 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, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-81299-0 |
9786610812998 |
0-8157-9659-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CampbellKurt M. <1957-> |
EinhornRobert J |
ReissMitchell |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nuclear nonproliferation |
National security |
Security, International |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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