Ballistic And Cruise Missile Proliferation In The Third World

Author : W. Seth Carus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313389771

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Ballistic Missiles in the Third World by W. Seth Carus Pdf

The proliferation of ballistic missiles in the Third World has posed a new type of challenge to policy makers in the United States. More than twenty Third World countries either possess surface-to-surface missiles or are trying to develop or acquire them. Current trends suggest that the number of countries with missiles will increase in the 1990s and that the capabilities of the available systems will also grow. W. Seth Carus assesses the threat of such proliferation to United States military forces as well as those of its allies operating in the Third World. The book studies the military utility of these missiles to the countries that possess them and covers the various military responses of Third World countries to missile proliferation. Carus also examines the various attempts the United States has made to slow the proliferation of ballistic missiles. Washington has joined many of its allies in the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a suppliers agreement designed to restrict exports of missiles and missile technologies to the Third World. According to Carus, efforts have been made to persuade the Soviet Union, China and other countries to abide by the provisions of the MTCR. After discussing the bilateral talks with proliferating countries, Carus also analyzes the attempts made to derail specific missile programs and the difficulties involved in controlling missile technology.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Ballistic missiles
ISBN : LOC:00020065163

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Ballistic and Cruise Missile Proliferation in the Third World by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology Pdf

Author : Janne E. Nolan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815720386

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Trappings of Power by Janne E. Nolan Pdf

Since the beginning of the crisis precipitated by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the threat posed by Iraq's arsenal of ballistic missiles has been the focus of international attention. In the opening days of the U.S.-led military counteroffensive beginning on January 16, 1992, Iraq launched ballistic missiles against population centers in Israel and military bases in Saudi Arabia. The attacks intensified the terror of the war and prompted renewed efforts by the multinational force to destroy Saddam Hussein's military machine. The countries aligned against Iraq were prepared for attacks by chemically armed missiles, but Iraq's missile force proved to be of little military consequence. The missiles that survived the opening hours of Operation Desert Storm were conventionally armed, inaccurate and unreliable. Most of those that were actually launched either were intercepted by American antimissile defenses or failed to hit vital targets. But the political impact of the missiles was inestimable. The strikes symbolized Iraq's determination to prosecute the war no matter what the cost. By threatening to involve Israel, they created severe tensions and posed the risk that multinational military coalition would be dissolved, and they underscored the potential vulnerability of all the states in the region to Iraqi aggression. In this book, Janne E. Nolan argues that the use of missiles is a harbinger of the altered international security environment confronting the Untied States and its allies in the late twentieth century. Long believed to be a distant prospect, the adoption of technological resources to missile development is already occurring in over a dozen developing countries, many of them long-standing regional antagonists. These capabilities present complicated challenges to American interests and foreign policy, challenges that have only begun to be explored as a result of the Iraqi crisis. The author examines the evolution

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ballistic missiles
ISBN : PSU:000016121546

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Missile Proliferation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science Pdf

Author : W. Seth Carus
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275945206

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Cruise Missile Proliferation in the 1990s by W. Seth Carus Pdf

The proliferation of advanced weapons to volatile regions of the world has become a major issue in the post Cold War era. It was thought that no Third World nation could ever pose a technologically-based threat to the great powers by acquiring advanced weaponry. But this has proved to be wrong. The Persian Gulf War changed the worldwide perception of the spread of ballistic missiles to countries like Iraq. Access to a new type of weapon--cruise missiles--poses an even greater threat. With technology that is accessible, affordable, and relatively simple to produce, Third World countries could acquire highly accurate, long-range cruise missile forces to escalate local conflicts and threaten the forces and even the territories of the industrial powers. This book is a warning to policymakers. It is not too late to confront the realities of cruise missile proliferation and to devise international responses that could contain the worst possible consequences. Carus proposes a new regime of technology controls, security-building measures, and conflict resolution that need to be considered, and acted on, by policymakers and international relations experts everywhere.

Author : Stanford University. Center for International Security and Arms Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082239000

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Assessing Ballistic Missile Proliferation and Its Control by Stanford University. Center for International Security and Arms Control Pdf

Author : Götz Neuneck,Otfried Ischebeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UOM:39015028866088

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Missile Proliferation, Missile Defense, and Arms Control by Götz Neuneck,Otfried Ischebeck Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Arms control
ISBN : PSU:000015604606

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Ballistic and Cruise Missile Proliferation in the Third World by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology Pdf

Author : Brad Roberts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004640290

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Weapons Proliferation and World Order by Brad Roberts Pdf

With the end of the Cold War, the subject of weapons proliferation has acquired new interest and prominence. So too have questions about the nature of the world order that will succeed the structure of the last fifty years. This study explores the connections among these topics. It describes the prevailing conceptual model of nuclear proliferation, evaluates proliferation's changing technical features, considers economic and political factors bearing on its future rate and character, and speculates about proliferation's implications on the post-cold-war world order. It also considers the role of international public policy in meeting proliferation's challenges. Arguing that updated approaches are needed, the analysis emphasizes cooperative over coercive approaches to order. It concludes with an assessment of progress to date in meeting these new challenges, arguing that the new agenda is only slowly coming into focus.

Author : Andrew Mack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UCSD:31822015009301

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Missile Proliferation in the Asia/Pacific Region by Andrew Mack Pdf

Author : Brad Roberts
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9041102051

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Weapons Proliferation and World Order by Brad Roberts Pdf

With the end of the Cold War, the subject of weapons proliferation has acquired new interest and prominence. So too have questions about the nature of the world order that will succeed the structure of the last fifty years. This study explores the connections among these topics. It describes the prevailing conceptual model of nuclear proliferation, evaluates proliferation's changing technical features, considers economic and political factors bearing on its future rate and character, and speculates about proliferation's implications on the post-cold-war world order. It also considers the role of international public policy in meeting proliferation's challenges. Arguing that updated approaches are needed, the analysis emphasizes cooperative over coercive approaches to order. It concludes with an assessment of progress to date in meeting these new challenges, arguing that the new agenda is only slowly coming into focus.

Author : Marie-France Desjardins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nuclear arms control
ISBN : 0662178874

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Ballistic Missile Proliferation by Marie-France Desjardins Pdf

Author : W. Seth Carus
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556020853065

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Ballistic Missiles in Modern Conflict by W. Seth Carus Pdf

Seth Carus's book is a unique combination of scholarly discipline and astute political judgment. This is a succinct and insightful analysis of one of the most vital security challenges of this century. Janne E. Nolan Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution Since the vivid images of SCUD missile attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia were flashed on television screens all over the world, many have wondered how a country like Iraq could acquire and use such long-range ballistic missiles. Although Iran and Iraq had fired these missiles at each other many times during their 1980-88 war, the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's missiles was not fully realized until the SCUDs began raining down on Israel, and Saudi Arabia at the start of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. This timely book by missile expert W. Seth Carus, written in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and including a foreword by Edward N. Luttwak, contains an alarming assessment of the missile threat worldwide. An up-to-the-minute postscript on the American-Iraqi war and its effects on further ballistic missile proliferation throughout the Third World is also included. Carus presents the facts behind the spread of ballistic missiles and their technology to Third World countries and suggests plausible responses for the United States and its allies. Various developing nations--among them Iran, Iraq, Libya, North and South Korea, Brazil, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, India, and South Africa--already possess large numbers of ballistic missiles and no longer rely on the superpowers alone for their weapons procurement or production. Carus covers all aspects of ballistic missiles--their capabilities and disadvantages, their possible fitting with chemical or nuclear warheads, their attractiveness for Third World leaders, and the responses of Third World countries to missile arsenals in neighboring states. The success of cruise missiles and anti-missile missiles (such as Patriots) in the Persian Gulf War make these missiles of even greater interest to Third World countries. Carus warns of the dire consequences of ignoring the spread of missiles and their technology to areas of the world where future wars are likely to occur.

Author : Dennis M. Gormley
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822035405356

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Missile Contagion by Dennis M. Gormley Pdf

Most books on missile proliferation focus on the spread of ballistic missiles or cruise missiles, not both. Gormley's work, however, explains why cruise missiles are beginning to spread widely, but does so by explaining their spread in the context of ballistic missile proliferation. It therefore treats both ballistic and cruise missile proliferation as related phenomenon. This work also focuses evenhandedly on both nonproliferation and defense policy (including missile defenses and counterforce doctrines) to fashion a set of integrated strategies for dealing with ballistic and cruise missile proliferation. Signs of missile contagion abound. In this study, Gormley argues that a series of rapid and surprising developments since 2005 suggest that the proliferation of missiles capable of delivering either weapons of mass destruction or highly accurate conventional payloads is approaching a critical threshold. The surprising fact is that land-attack cruise missiles, not ballistic missiles, constitute the primary problem. Flying under the radar, both literally and figuratively, land-attack cruise missiles add a dangerous new dimension to protecting U.S. security interests and preventing regional military instability. Gormley asserts that cruise missiles are not destined to supplant ballistic missiles; rather, they are likely to join them, because when both are employed together, they could severely test even the best missile defenses. Worse yet, Gormley argues, land-attack cruise missiles are increasingly being linked to preemptive strike doctrines, which are fueling regional arms races and crisis instability. This work explains why an epidemic of cruise missile proliferation, long forecasted by analysts, has only recently begun to occur. After first assessing the state of ballistic missile proliferation, Gormley explores the role of three factors in shaping the spread of cruise missiles. These include specialized knowledge needed for missile development; narrative messages about reasons for acquiring cruise missiles; and norms of state behavior about missile nonproliferation policy and defense doctrine. This book then addresses the policy adjustments needed to stanch the spread of cruise missiles in the first place, or, barring that, cope militarily with a more demanding missile threat consisting of both cruise and ballistic missiles.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ballistic missiles
ISBN : PSU:000016139657

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Nuclear and Missile Proliferation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs Pdf