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How nuclear weapons spread [[electronic resource] ] : nuclear-weapon proliferation in the 1990s / / Frank Barnaby
| How nuclear weapons spread [[electronic resource] ] : nuclear-weapon proliferation in the 1990s / / Frank Barnaby |
| Autore | Barnaby Frank |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.1/74 |
| Collana | Operational level of war |
| Soggetto topico |
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-32609-3
0-203-28422-4 0-203-16832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE LINK BETWEEN PEACEFUL AND MILITARY NUCLEAR PROGRAMMES; 2 NUCLEAR POWER IN ELECTRICAL ENERGY SUPPLY; 3 THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY AND HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUN; 4 THE COMPONENTS OF NUCLEAR AND THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS; 5 NUCLEAR-WEAPON TESTING; 6 DISMANTLING NUCLEAR WEAPONS; 7 DISPOSING OF PLUTONIUM; 8 THE PROSPECTS FOR THE NUCLEAR ARSENALS; 9 INDIA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 10 PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 11 ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 12 IRAQ'S NUCLEAR-WEAPON PROGRAMME; 13 NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
14 ARGENTINA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME15 BRAZIL'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 16 SOUTH AFRICA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 17 IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 18 NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TO SUB-NATIONAL GROUPS; 19 PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEPONS; 20 THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPON DELIVERY SYSTEMS; APPENDIX; REFERENCES |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450793303321 |
Barnaby Frank
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How nuclear weapons spread [[electronic resource] ] : nuclear-weapon proliferation in the 1990s / / Frank Barnaby
| How nuclear weapons spread [[electronic resource] ] : nuclear-weapon proliferation in the 1990s / / Frank Barnaby |
| Autore | Barnaby Frank |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.1/74 |
| Collana | Operational level of war |
| Soggetto topico |
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons |
| ISBN |
1-280-32609-3
0-203-28422-4 0-203-16832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE LINK BETWEEN PEACEFUL AND MILITARY NUCLEAR PROGRAMMES; 2 NUCLEAR POWER IN ELECTRICAL ENERGY SUPPLY; 3 THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY AND HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUN; 4 THE COMPONENTS OF NUCLEAR AND THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS; 5 NUCLEAR-WEAPON TESTING; 6 DISMANTLING NUCLEAR WEAPONS; 7 DISPOSING OF PLUTONIUM; 8 THE PROSPECTS FOR THE NUCLEAR ARSENALS; 9 INDIA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 10 PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 11 ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 12 IRAQ'S NUCLEAR-WEAPON PROGRAMME; 13 NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
14 ARGENTINA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME15 BRAZIL'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 16 SOUTH AFRICA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 17 IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 18 NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TO SUB-NATIONAL GROUPS; 19 PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEPONS; 20 THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPON DELIVERY SYSTEMS; APPENDIX; REFERENCES |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783854803321 |
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Barnaby Frank
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How nuclear weapons spread [[electronic resource] ] : nuclear-weapon proliferation in the 1990s / / Frank Barnaby
| How nuclear weapons spread [[electronic resource] ] : nuclear-weapon proliferation in the 1990s / / Frank Barnaby |
| Autore | Barnaby Frank |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.1/74 |
| Collana | Operational level of war |
| Soggetto topico |
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons |
| ISBN |
1-280-32609-3
0-203-28422-4 0-203-16832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE LINK BETWEEN PEACEFUL AND MILITARY NUCLEAR PROGRAMMES; 2 NUCLEAR POWER IN ELECTRICAL ENERGY SUPPLY; 3 THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY AND HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUN; 4 THE COMPONENTS OF NUCLEAR AND THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS; 5 NUCLEAR-WEAPON TESTING; 6 DISMANTLING NUCLEAR WEAPONS; 7 DISPOSING OF PLUTONIUM; 8 THE PROSPECTS FOR THE NUCLEAR ARSENALS; 9 INDIA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 10 PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 11 ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 12 IRAQ'S NUCLEAR-WEAPON PROGRAMME; 13 NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
14 ARGENTINA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME15 BRAZIL'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 16 SOUTH AFRICA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 17 IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME; 18 NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TO SUB-NATIONAL GROUPS; 19 PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEPONS; 20 THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPON DELIVERY SYSTEMS; APPENDIX; REFERENCES |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821745903321 |
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Barnaby Frank
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The role and control of weapons in the 1990's [[electronic resource] /] / Frank Barnaby
| The role and control of weapons in the 1990's [[electronic resource] /] / Frank Barnaby |
| Autore | Barnaby Frank |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355/.033/0049 |
| Collana | The Operational Level of War |
| Soggetto topico |
Military readiness
Arms control |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-203-28421-6
1-280-32608-5 9786610326082 0-203-16831-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE ROLE AND CONTROL OF WEAPONS IN THE 1990's; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Introduction; 1 The Evolution Of Security; European security; Responding to changing patterns of violence in the 1990's; Conclusions; 2 New Military Technologies; New military technologies; Reconnaissance; Weapon guidance; New conventional warheads; Computerized C31 systems; Vulnerability of main battle tanks; Anti-tank missile developments; Non-offensive defence; Criteria for judging change in security policy; 3 Arms Production And Trade; Arms producers; Regional arms producers; Who buys and sells weapons?
Arms exporters Arms importers; Why do countries buy and sell weapons?; 4 The Proliferation Of Ballistic Missiles; 5 The Nuclear Dimension; Nuclear explosives; Fission weapons; Boosted fission weapons; H-bombs; Improving warhead accuracies; Nuclear policies; Nuclear deterrence by assured destruction; Nuclear war-fighting and war-winning; ASW systems; ABM systems; 6 The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons; Peaceful versus military atoms; Plutonium production; Clandestine production of fissile material; The need for nuclear testing; 7 Nuclear Terrorism; The theft of plutonium Reactor-grade plutonium as an explosive? Is it easy to make a nuclear explosive?; Very crude nuclear explosives; Nuclear terrorist acts; The nuclear black market; 8 Chemical Weapons And Warfare; Types of chemical weapon; Disabling agents; Choking agents; Blister agents; Blood agents; Nerve agents; Effects of exposure to nerve agents; Binary chemical weapons; Past uses of chemical weapons; 9 The Spread Of Chemical Weapons; The American chemical arsenal; The Russian chemical arsenal; The French chemical arsenal; The proliferation of chemical weapons; Iraq; Other countries; Chemical terrorism Tabun Dispersal; 10 Biological Warfare; Past uses of biological weapons; Biological-warfare agents; Biological weapons; Attitudes to biological warfare; 11 The Spread Of Biological Weapons; Biological weapons programmes; Before the Second World War; The Second World War; After the Second World War; 12 Military Genetic Engineering; The production of new biological-warfare agents; 13 Can The Global Arms Trade Be Controlled?; Current restrictions on the arms trade; Controlling the spread of ballistic missiles; Encouraging moves to defensive weaponry; Secrecy in the arms business 14 The Future Of The Nuclear Arsenals The START Treaty; The tactical nuclear arsenals; Unilateral reductions in the nuclear arsenals; Other nuclear-weapon powers; Conclusions; 15 The International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime; Why countries go nuclear; Recent developments in the international non-proliferation regime; The future of the nuclear industry; The status of potential proliferators; The 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Increasing the credibility of IAEA safeguards; The IAEA Chernobyl report; IAEA safeguards and Iraq's nuclear-weapon programmes Improving the credibility of international nuclear safeguards |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451231103321 |
|
Barnaby Frank
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||
| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The role and control of weapons in the 1990's [[electronic resource] /] / Frank Barnaby
| The role and control of weapons in the 1990's [[electronic resource] /] / Frank Barnaby |
| Autore | Barnaby Frank |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355/.033/0049 |
| Collana | The Operational Level of War |
| Soggetto topico |
Military readiness
Arms control |
| ISBN |
0-203-28421-6
1-280-32608-5 9786610326082 0-203-16831-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE ROLE AND CONTROL OF WEAPONS IN THE 1990's; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Introduction; 1 The Evolution Of Security; European security; Responding to changing patterns of violence in the 1990's; Conclusions; 2 New Military Technologies; New military technologies; Reconnaissance; Weapon guidance; New conventional warheads; Computerized C31 systems; Vulnerability of main battle tanks; Anti-tank missile developments; Non-offensive defence; Criteria for judging change in security policy; 3 Arms Production And Trade; Arms producers; Regional arms producers; Who buys and sells weapons?
Arms exporters Arms importers; Why do countries buy and sell weapons?; 4 The Proliferation Of Ballistic Missiles; 5 The Nuclear Dimension; Nuclear explosives; Fission weapons; Boosted fission weapons; H-bombs; Improving warhead accuracies; Nuclear policies; Nuclear deterrence by assured destruction; Nuclear war-fighting and war-winning; ASW systems; ABM systems; 6 The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons; Peaceful versus military atoms; Plutonium production; Clandestine production of fissile material; The need for nuclear testing; 7 Nuclear Terrorism; The theft of plutonium Reactor-grade plutonium as an explosive? Is it easy to make a nuclear explosive?; Very crude nuclear explosives; Nuclear terrorist acts; The nuclear black market; 8 Chemical Weapons And Warfare; Types of chemical weapon; Disabling agents; Choking agents; Blister agents; Blood agents; Nerve agents; Effects of exposure to nerve agents; Binary chemical weapons; Past uses of chemical weapons; 9 The Spread Of Chemical Weapons; The American chemical arsenal; The Russian chemical arsenal; The French chemical arsenal; The proliferation of chemical weapons; Iraq; Other countries; Chemical terrorism Tabun Dispersal; 10 Biological Warfare; Past uses of biological weapons; Biological-warfare agents; Biological weapons; Attitudes to biological warfare; 11 The Spread Of Biological Weapons; Biological weapons programmes; Before the Second World War; The Second World War; After the Second World War; 12 Military Genetic Engineering; The production of new biological-warfare agents; 13 Can The Global Arms Trade Be Controlled?; Current restrictions on the arms trade; Controlling the spread of ballistic missiles; Encouraging moves to defensive weaponry; Secrecy in the arms business 14 The Future Of The Nuclear Arsenals The START Treaty; The tactical nuclear arsenals; Unilateral reductions in the nuclear arsenals; Other nuclear-weapon powers; Conclusions; 15 The International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime; Why countries go nuclear; Recent developments in the international non-proliferation regime; The future of the nuclear industry; The status of potential proliferators; The 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Increasing the credibility of IAEA safeguards; The IAEA Chernobyl report; IAEA safeguards and Iraq's nuclear-weapon programmes Improving the credibility of international nuclear safeguards |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910669852103321 |
|
Barnaby Frank
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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