Brookings Institution Press, Date: 2004. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2004. Brookings Institution Press ISBN 0815713312 9780815713319 [US]

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Brookings Institution Press, Date: 2004-06-23. paperback. Used: Good. 2004. Brookings Institution Press ISBN 0815713312 9780815713319 [US]

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ISBN10: 0815713312, ISBN13: 9780815713319, [publisher: Brookings Institution Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is the world approaching a tipping point that will unleash an epidemic of nuclear proliferation Today many of the building blocks of a nuclear arsenal-scientific and engineering expertise, precision machine tools, software, design information-are more readily available than ever before. The nuclear pretensions of so-called rogue states and terrorist organizations are much discussed. But how firm is the resolve of those countries that historically have chosen to forswear nuclear weapons A combination of changes in the international environment could set off a domino effect, with countries scrambling to develop nuclear weapons so as not to be left behind-or to develop nuclear ''hedge'' capacities that would allow them to build nuclear arsenals relatively quickly, if necessary. Th e Nuclear Tipping Point examines the factors, both domestic and transnational, that shape nuclear policy. The authors, distinguished scholars and foreign policy practitioners with extensive government experience, develop a framework for understanding why certain countries may originally have decided to renounce nuclear weapons-and pinpoint some more recent country-specific factors that could give them cause to reconsider. Case studies of eight ...
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