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Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428921108
Author : Gordon Press Publishers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 084905799X
Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biological arms control
ISBN : OCLC:1039252020
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Congress
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210012157069
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428921061
Since the end of the Cold War, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has become much more prominent in U.S. national security and foreign policy planning. Revelations about Iraqi, North Korean, South African, and Israeli nuclear weapon programs, the possibility of a nuclear arms race in South Asia, and the multidimensional conflicts in the Middle East all point to the immediacy of this problem. Adding a dangerous new twist is the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a superpower armed with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons whose successor states are wracked by economic crises and political instability. At least three main factors underlie this renewed emphasis on proliferation. First, the reduced military threat from the former Soviet Union has increased the relative importance of lesser powers, especially if armed with weapons of mass destruction. Second, certain international political and technological trends are increasing the threat to international security from proliferation. Third, new opportunities are opening for enhancing the current international regimes designed to stem proliferation. Since at least as far back as the l96Os, when it sponsored the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States has recognized that proliferation is a global problem and combating it requires high levels of international cooperation. This country has also exerted unilateral influence, successfully in several cases, to discourage proliferation; it will no doubt continue to do so. Nevertheless, placing priority on nonproliferation will require the further development and enforcement of international norms and behavior supporting that objective. International conditions today offer significant opportunities for such cooperation.
Author : Eric A. Croddy,James J. Wirtz,Jeffrey A. Larsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781851094950
The first accessible reference to cover the history, context, current issues, and key concepts surrounding biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. A collection of information on everything from aerosols to zones of peace, these two volumes cover historical background, technology, and strategic implications of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, thus providing facts, terms, and context needed to participate in contemporary policy debate. This encyclopedia is the only comprehensive reference dedicated to the three types of weapons of mass destruction. With over 500 entries arranged alphabetically, volume one covers biological and chemical weapons, while volume two focuses on nuclear weapons. Experts from eight countries cover issues related to these weapons, policies, strategies, technologies, delivery vehicles, arms control concepts, treaties, and key historical figures and locations. Entries are written to make difficult concepts easy to understand by cutting through military and scientific jargon. Students, lay readers, scientists, and government policy makers are provided with the broad range of information needed to place today's policy discussions in proper strategic or historical context.
Author : Eric A. Croddy,James J. Wirtz
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851094905
The first accessible reference to cover the history, context, current issues, and key concepts surrounding biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.
Author : John P. Caves,W. Seth Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN : OCLC:1260632773
Author : Albert J. Mauroni
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442273313
The Cold War phrase “weapons of mass destruction” continues to be used despite significant changes in international political cultures, military concepts of operation, and technology advances. Today, the term “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) is used to address many things, from grams of ricin and barrels of industrial chemicals to megaton nuclear weapons. As a direct result of the decision to refer to all nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons as well as biological, chemical and radiological (CBR) hazards as “WMD,” we have lost the ability to accurately develop, assess, and discuss policy concerns relating to the contemporary use of unconventional weapons on the battlefield and within the homeland. This book uses a public policy framework to examine how the U.S. government, and in particular the U.S. military, should address the potential use of unconventional weapons in the 21st century. It defines the problem, identifies the policy actors and reviews policy options. It discusses past policy efforts before offering a critical review of current strategies and how WMD issues are integrated into the current military Joint Operating Concepts (deterrence, cooperative security, major combat operations, irregular warfare, stability, and homeland security), and proposes new national framework for countering WMD. The aim is to answer such questions as what does counterproliferation mean and whether the U.S. government is adequately prepared to protect U.S. citizens and its armed forces from adversaries developing unconventional weapons.
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309050319
This book arises from a joint NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences program to explore possible new approaches to the control of sensitive dual-use technologies, with respect to expanded trade between Western advanced industrialized countries and the republics of the former Soviet Union as well as to the export trade of the Russian and other CIS republics with countries of proliferation concern.
Author : Gary Ackerman,Jeremy Tamsett
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781420069679
Explores the Nexus Formed When Malevolent Actors Access Malignant MeansWritten for professionals, academics, and policymakers working at the forefront of counterterrorism efforts, Jihadists and Weapons of Mass Destruction is an authoritative and comprehensive work addressing the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the hands of jihadists,
Author : John M. Collins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974004
Provides an overview of the principles, theories, policies, and other fundamentals of modern warfare and their applications in the twenty-first century.
Author : Ian Bellany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134115266
This book critically assesses the suggestion that strengthening existing international prohibitions against state-level acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction could safeguard against the possibility of their use by terrorists targeting civilians.
Author : Margaret E. Kosal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030283421
This book explores and analyzes emerging innovations within today’s most cutting-edge science and technology (S&T) areas, which are cited as carrying the potential to revolutionize governmental structures, economies, and international security. Some have argued that such technologies will yield doomsday scenarios and that military applications of such technologies have even greater potential than nuclear weapons to radically change the balance of power. As the United States looks to the future – whether dominated by extremist groups co-opting advanced weapons in the world of globalized non-state actors or states engaged in persistent regional conflicts in areas of strategic interest – new adversaries and new science and technology will emerge. Choices made today that affect science and technology will impact how ably the US can and will respond. Chapters within the book look at the changing strategic environment in which security operations are planned and conducted; how these impact science and technology policy choices made today; and predictions of how science and technology may play a beneficial or deleterious role in the future. Some game changing technologies have received global attention, while others may be less well known; the new technologies discussed within this proposal, as well as future discoveries, may significantly alter military capabilities and may generate new threats against military and civilian sectors.
Author : Thanos P. Dokos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135767921
As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the past decade has been the extraordinary diffusion of war-making capabilities from the developed North to the developing South. In the eyes of some proliferant states, possessing nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons would not only add to their regional stature, but would also offer an asymmetrical counter to the West’s massive superiority in conventional forces. In the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, a number of countries are assumed to possess varying levels of NBC-weapons capabilities. Reasons for concern include the fact that such weapons have been used in the past; the region’s geographic proximity to Europe and the vital interests of the West (which is prepared, under certain circumstances, to use force to protect them); the multiplicity of conflicts and other security problems; and the general instability in the region (including the spread of religious extremism). This important and timely book assesses, in detail, the accuracy of predictions, and perceptions, about a possible military threat from the Southern Mediterranean (Muslim) world; and their impact on NATO’s political and military posture. Thanos P. Doxos presents an assessment of the Alliance’s options for dealing with the problem. This book represents an invaluable, topical resource for researchers and policy makers.