A perpetual menace : nuclear weapons and international order / / William Walker
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| Autore: |
Walker William <1946-, >
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| Titolo: |
A perpetual menace : nuclear weapons and international order / / William Walker
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.1/747 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nuclear arms control |
| Nuclear weapons - Government policy | |
| Security, International | |
| World politics - 21st century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A Perpetual Menace Nuclear weapons and international order; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and table; Prologue: the Ship of Fools; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: the problems of nuclear order and their understanding; 2 The awakenings, 1939-46; 3 Sculpting an order out of disorder: nuclear weapons and the Cold War; 4 Two crises of nuclear order, 1973-86; 5 The international nuclear order's consolidation, 1986-97; 6 Into a second nuclear age? Shifting and expanding problems of nuclear order, 1997-2007 |
| 7 Back to nuclear disarmament, arms control and the NPT's invigoration8 Heading for the rocks?; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction.This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of new sciences, technologies and administrative capabilities greatly expanded states' abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to n |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A perpetual menace |
| ISBN: | 1-283-46199-4 |
| 9786613461995 | |
| 0-203-23912-1 | |
| 1-136-59464-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461525503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge global security studies.