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Author : Bruce G. Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Command and control systems
ISBN : UCSD:31822021605431
Author : Bruce G. Blair
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029293142
POLITICS/CURRENT EVENTS
Author : Nathan E. Busch
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813156620
The global threat of nuclear weapons is one of today's key policy issues. Using a wide variety of sources, including recently declassified information, Nathan E. Busch offers detailed examinations of the nuclear programs in the United States, Russia, China, Iraq, India, and Pakistan, as well as the emerging programs in Iran and North Korea. He also assesses the current debates in international relations over the risks associated with the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the post--Cold War world. Busch explores how our understanding of nuclear proliferation centers on theoretical disagreements about how best to explain and predict the behavior of states. His study bridges the gap between theory and empirical evidence by determining whether countries with nuclear weapons have adequate controls over their nuclear arsenals and fissile material stockpiles (such as highly enriched uranium and plutonium). Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of various systems of nuclear weapons regulation, Busch projects what types of controls proliferating states are likely to employ and assesses the threat posed by the possible theft of fissile materials by aspiring nuclear states or by terrorists. No End in Sight provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of issues at the forefront of contemporary international affairs. With the resurgence of the threat of nuclear terrorism, Busch's insights and conclusions will prove critical to understanding the implications of nuclear proliferation.
Author : Valery E. Yarynich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Command and control systems
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114677250
This book discusses command and control of strategic nuclear weapons. Its goal is to facilitate cooperation in this field between official and independent experts in Russia, the United States and other countries, and to make these matters a subject of public discussion.
Author : Eric H. Arnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0198291949
After more than three decades of on-off negotiations, a CTB treaty was signed in 1996. This book describes how the CTB will affect nuclear programmes and decision-making in the nuclear weapon states, the threshold states and the non-nuclear weapon states of proliferation concern. While some states will maintain their nuclear weapon arsenals and options under the CTB - and some weapon modernization may be undertaken - the CTB will foreclose a number of technologies and will probably be signed and ratified. Further the CTB will codify a norm against nuclear modernization and strengthen the norm against nuclear proliferation in a way that reinforces other efforts to restrict nuclear activities. The book examines the significance of treaty provisions that may be intended to accommodate existing nuclear weapon stockpiles or options and how these provisions may function as modernization or proliferation loopholes. It concludes with a review of practical steps that can be taken - both unilaterally and multilaterally - to further strengthen these norms and reinforce the CTB regime.
Author : Joseph Rotblat,Michiji Konuma
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814545945
In this volume, scientists write on the desirability and feasibility of eliminating nuclear weapons, including reflections 50 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs. The following topics are discussed: strategies for preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; ways and means to monitor and control the arms trade; the need for global governance; specific aspects of security in the Asia-Pacific region; and interactions between the problems of meeting the world's energy demand, reducing environmental pollution, and promoting sustainable development.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817918057
Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear weapons and ensure the safety of the nuclear enterprise of weapons and reactors against catastrophic accidents. The distinguished contributors, all known for their long-standing interest in getting better control of the threats posed by nuclear weapons and reactors, discuss what we can learn from past successes and failures and attempt to identify the key ingredients for a road ahead that can lead us toward a world free of nuclear weapons. The authors review historical efforts to deal with the challenge of nuclear weapons, with a focus on the momentous arms control negotiations between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. They offer specific recommendations for reducing risks that should be adopted by the nuclear enterprise, both military and civilian, in the United States and abroad. Since the risks posed by the nuclear enterprise are so high, they conclude, no reasonable effort should be spared to ensure safety and security.
Author : Thomas M. Nichols
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812245660
For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, the Chinese, and other major nuclear powers, continue to retain a deep faith in the political and military value of nuclear force, and this belief remains enshrined at the center of U.S. defense policy regardless of the radical changes that have taken place in international politics. In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols offers a lucid, accessible reexamination of the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy. Nichols explains why strategies built for the Cold War have survived into the twenty-first century, and he illustrates how America's nearly unshakable belief in the utility of nuclear arms has hindered U.S. and international attempts to slow the nuclear programs of volatile regimes in North Korea and Iran. From a solid historical foundation, Nichols makes the compelling argument that to end the danger of worldwide nuclear holocaust, the United States must take the lead in abandoning unrealistic threats of nuclear force and then create a new and more stable approach to deterrence for the twenty-first century.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : PURD:32754067977268
Author : George Quester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315483719
First Published in 1996. This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world rile of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. The contributors were chosen not only for their recognised expertise but also to ensure a stimulating diversity of perspectives and a dynamic mix of approaches.
Author : Robert L Ehrlich
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780756704759
Hearing on the proliferation of ballistic missile technology and its ability in wrong hands to pose a personal threat to every American citizen. There has been mounting evidence of such a threat from missiles that could carry conventional chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. Today, fully 25 countries, some of them hostile to the U.S., possess or are actively developing ballistic missiles. Witnesses include: Michael Krepon, pres., the Henry L. Stimson Center; Keith Payne, pres., Nat. Inst. for Public Policy; R. James Woolsey, former Dir., Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Frank Gaffney, Jr., pres., Center for Security Policy; and Rep. Curt Weldon.
Author : Dean A. Wilkening
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136063329
Should the US deploy ballistic-missile defences? The arguments for and against are becoming increasingly polarised. This paper offers what is currently lacking in the debate: a quantitative analysis of how well defences would have to work to meet specific security objectives, and what level of defence might upset strategic stability.
Author : Glenn C. Buchan
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0833029177
This study examines the possible roles of nuclear weapons in contemporary U.S. national security policy. The United States has a range of nuclear strategies and postures among which to choose: from abolition of U.S. nuclear weapons, aggressive reductions and "dealerting," "business as usual, only smaller," more aggressive nuclear posture, to nuclear emphasis. The nation should have the operational flexibility to in fact use a modest number of nuclear weapons if the need were overwhelming and other options were inadequate.
Author : George H. Quester
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1563243636
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author : John D. Steinbruner
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081579830X
From the earliest human records, warfare has been both an organizing focus and a prime source of political motivation. Countless battles have been fought in the course of colonizing the planet, and the experience has created a legacy of military confrontation that many people consider immutable. Since preparations for war and the occasional conduct of it have been central preoccupations for virtually all the major states throughout time, it is widely assumed that the pattern is rooted in human nature and will endure indefinitely. But contemporary civilization is undergoing a monumental transformation affecting its most basic features. The combined effects of information technology, population dynamics, and the globalization of economic activity are altering some of the critical operating conditions of human societies and appear to be inducing a new pattern of interaction. Correspondingly, fundamental changes in the practice of war-or what is now more politely called international security-can be expected to follow. Principles of Global Security anticipates the major implications of this massive transformation for security policy. John D. Steinbruner, one of the nation's leading specialists on defense issues, identifies formative problems and organizing principles relating to the predictable issues of security. He examines in sequence how the configuration of nuclear and conventional forces might be affected, how the problems of communal violence and dangers of technical proliferation might be managed, and how security relationships among the major states might be altered. One of the fundamental implications of globalization in a post-cold war environment is a shift in security policy from deterrence to reassurance, from active confrontation to cooperative engagement. Without an opponent to justify preparation for large-scale traditional missions, nations must establish safer and less volatile patterns of deployment. Maintaining global security in the twenty-
