The nuclear tipping point : why states reconsider their nuclear choices / / Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813783603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-280-81299-0; 9786610812998; 0-8157-9659-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CampbellKurt M. <1957->; EinhornRobert J; ReissMitchell
• Disciplina: 327.1/747
• Soggetti: Nuclear nonproliferation; National security; Security, International
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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