For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation
Strategic Nuclear Sharing
โ Scribed by Julian Schofield (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 218
- Series
- Global Issues Series
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Nuclear Sharing and Why More May Be Better....Pages 1-6
Theories of Nuclear Non-Sharing....Pages 7-14
The Theory of Nuclear Sharing....Pages 15-28
Nuclear Proliferation Races and Nonproliferation Bargains....Pages 29-43
Wartime Cooperation: The Early Cases of Nuclear Sharing....Pages 44-47
The Nature of Off-the-Shelf Requests....Pages 48-49
French Nuclear Assistance to Israel....Pages 50-58
The USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact and Cuba....Pages 59-66
Sharing Within the Western Alliance....Pages 67-85
Israel and South Africa โ Nuclear Collaboration....Pages 86-92
Chinese Nuclear Assistance to Pakistan and North Korea....Pages 93-100
Nuclear Sharing and Pakistan, North Korea and Iran....Pages 101-108
Soft Nuclear Sharing....Pages 109-119
Conclusion: Findings....Pages 120-131
Back Matter....Pages 132-208
โฆ Subjects
Military and Defence Studies; Conflict Studies; International Relations; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Energy Economics; Diplomacy
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