This volume includes a representative selection of Sidney Drell's recent writings and speeches (circa 1993 to the present) on public policy issues with substantial scientific components. Most of the writings deal with national security, nuclear weapons, and arms control and reflect the author's pers
Nuclear Arms Control: Nuclear Deterrence in the Post-Cold War Period
β Scribed by Tom Sauer (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 158
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Nuclear Deterrence Revisited....Pages 1-29
Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War Period....Pages 30-58
Nuclear Arms Control in the Future: Heading Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World....Pages 59-91
Conclusion....Pages 92-95
Epilogue: The Possible βEuropeanizationβ of the French (and British?) Nuclear Weapons....Pages 96-102
Back Matter....Pages 103-146
β¦ Subjects
Science, general
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