LEADER 04556nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910461098303321 005 20211013181252.0 010 $a1-280-49147-7 010 $a9786613586704 010 $a0-8203-4380-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160117 035 $a(EBL)3039084 035 $a(OCoLC)781636136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000693239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11481337 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000693239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10657475 035 $a(PQKB)11266494 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039084 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17753 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4977942 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039084 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539272 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4977942 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358670 035 $a(OCoLC)817077906 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160117 100 $a20110909d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSlaying the nuclear dragon$b[electronic resource] $edisarmament dynamics in the twenty-first century /$fedited by Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro 210 $aAthens $cUniversity of Georgia Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in security and international affairs 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8203-3689-0 327 $aIntroduction: the nuclear dragon: no longer out on the prowl -- The optimistic nuclear weapon states: the United States and the United Kingdom / David Santoro -- Advocating the elimination of nuclear weapons: the role of key individual and coalition states / Marianne Hanson -- The rollback states: South Africa and Kazakhstan / Stephen F. Burgess and Togzhan Kassenova -- The pessimistic nuclear weapon states: France, Russia, and China / David Santoro -- The threshold states: Japan and Brazil / Maria Rost Rublee -- The nuclear energy aspirants: Egypt and Vietnam / Tanya Ogilvie-White and Maria Rost Rublee -- The nuclear holdouts: India, Israel, and Pakistan / Devin T. Hagerty -- The defiant states: North Korea and Iran / Tanya Ogilvie-White -- The silent proliferators: Syria and Myanmar / Jacqueline Shire -- Conclusion: the nuclear dragon: one eye open, one eye closed. 330 $aIn recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons, helping to put disarmament back into international security discussions. More recently, U.S. president Barack Obama, prominent U.S. congressional members of both political parties, and a number of influential foreign leaders have espoused the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons.Turning this vision into reality requires an understanding of the forces driving disarmament forward and those holding it back. Slaying the Nuclear Dragon provides in-depth, objective analysis of current nuclear disarmament dynamics. Examining the political, state-level factors that drive and stall progress, contributors highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by proponents of disarmament. These essays show that although conditions are favorable for significant reductions, numerous hurdles still exist. Contributors look at three categories of states: those that generate momentum for disarmament; those with policies that are problematic for disarmament; and those that actively hinder progress-whether openly, secretly, deliberately, or inadvertently.Nuclear deterrence was long credited with preventing war between the two major Cold War powers, but with the spread of nuclear technology, threats have shifted to other state powers and to nonstate groups. Slaying the Nuclear Dragon addresses an urgent need to examine nuclear disarmament in a realistic, nonideological manner. 410 0$aStudies in security and international affairs. 606 $aNuclear disarmament$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aInternational relations$xHistory$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNuclear disarmament$xHistory 615 0$aInternational relations$xHistory 676 $a327.1/747 701 $aOgilvie-White$b Tanya$01034216 701 $aSantoro$b David$0293566 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461098303321 996 $aSlaying the nuclear dragon$92453201 997 $aUNINA