The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Extending the U.S. Umbrella and Increasing Chances of War - Couverture souple

Demetrios James Caraley; Robert Jervis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1884853137 ISBN 13 : 9781884853135

Editeur : Academy of Political Science, 2018

Synopsis

Introduction:

NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE BACK. They never completely disappeared, but with the end of the Cold War, they lost their central place in American concerns as the danger of a civilization-ending war disappeared. Other nuclear-related dangers remained, of course. Indeed, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union new ones appeared. Not only were Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan now nuclear powers, but the sprawling Russian nuclear installations and, even more, Soviet nuclear scientists who were now unemployed, raised the danger of “loose nukes” and nuclear proliferation.

Fortunately, the former Soviet republics saw nuclear weapons as difficult to maintain, unnecessary, and a ticket to Western assistance, and the United States also moved creatively to do what it could to develop cooperative arrangements with Russia that would secure nuclear sites and keep nuclear scientists usefully employed. Although far from complete and perhaps having unintended consequences (could Moscow have seized Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in 2014 if Ukraine had maintained a nuclear arsenal?), these efforts were largely successful, which may account for the fact that we now take this de-nuclearization for granted rather than studying it and praising its architects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academy of Political Science
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1884853137
• ISBN 13: 9781884853135
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible