China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control; A Preliminary Assessment Chairmen's Report of a roundtable jointly sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Defense University, and the Institute for Defense Analyses

Manning, Robert A. (Co-chair), Montaperto, Ronald (Co-chair), and Roberts, Brad (Co-chair)

ISBN 10: 0876092725 / ISBN 13: 9780876092729

Edité par Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 2000

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x, 95, [3] pages. Some ink marks noted. Robert A. Manning is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He previously served in the State Department as a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the Pacific (1989-93) and on the Secretary's policy planning staff (2004-08). Ronald N. Montaperto is a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst. Dr. Brad Roberts has served as director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 2015. From 2009 to 2013, he was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy. In this role, he served as policy director of the Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review and led their implementation. Prior to entering government service, Dr. Roberts was a research fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, editor of The Washington Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Between leaving the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2013 and assuming his current responsibilities, Dr. Roberts was a consulting professor at Stanford University and William Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). While at CISAC, he authored a book entitled The Case for US Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century, which won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2016. China has been largely overlooked in the global nuclear equation for too long, argue the authors of this new Council report. Beginning with a comprehensive review of what is known in the open, unclassified literature about China's nuclear weapons and strategic modernization program, the authors consider the alternative trajectories ahead for China's force modernization as well as the interests and perspectives informing China's plans. Central to this analysis is an understanding of how the U.S.-Russian offense/defense relationship, and especially the movement toward ballistic missile defenses by the United States, influences China's modernization program. The study goes on to explore how modernization affects U.S. interests. The authors then elaborate a preliminary agenda for exploring with China the requirements of strategic stability in the emerging era and of testing Beijing's intention to continue some form of restraint in the years ahead. China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control offers the kind of reasoned analysis and intellectual honesty that is essential if new challenges are to be dealt with in ways that secure U.S. interests.

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• Titre: China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control; A Preliminary Assessment Chairmen's Report of a roundtable jointly sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Defense University, and the Institute for Defense Analyses
• Éditeur: Council on Foreign Relations, New York
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0876092725
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780876092729
• Reliure: Trade paperback
• Édition: Presumed First Edition, First printing.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No DJ issued.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Proliferation
  • Arms Control

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China has been largely overlooked in the global nuclear equationfor too long, argue the authors of this new Council report. Beginning with a comprehensive review of what is known in the open, unclassified literature about Chinas nuclear weapons and strategic modernization program, the authors consider the alternative trajectories ahead for Chinas force modernization as well as the interests and perspectives informing Chinas plans. Central to this analysis is an understanding of how the U.S.-Russian offense/defense relationshipand especially the movement toward ballistic missile defenses by the United Statesinfluences Chinas modernization program. The study goes on to explore how modernization affects U.S. interests. The authors then elaborate a preliminary agenda for exploring with China the requirements of strategic stability in the emerging era and of testing Beijings intention to continue some form of restraint in the years ahead. China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control offers the kind of reasoned analysis and intellectual honesty that is essential if new challenges are to be dealt with in ways that secure U.S. interests.