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The nuclear tipping point : why states reconsider their nuclear choices / Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, Mitchell B. Reiss, editors.

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The nuclear tipping point : why states reconsider their nuclear choices / Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, Mitchell B. Reiss, editors.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Campbell, Kurt M., 1957-
  • Einhorn, Robert J.
  • Reiss, Mitchell.
Description
xii, 367 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Provides a framework for understanding the myriad factors that shape nuclear policy. Case studies of eight long-term stalwarts of the nonproliferation regime--Egypt, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabai, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, and Turkey--flesh out this framework and show how even these countries might be pushed over the edge of a nuclear tipping point -- from cover.
Subject
  • Nuclear nonproliferation
  • National security
  • Security, International
Genre/Form
Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The nuclear tipping point : prospects for a world of many nuclear weapons states / Mitchell B. Reiss -- Reconsidering a nuclear future : why countries might cross over to the other side / Kurt M. Campbell -- Will the abstainers reconsider? : focusing on individual cases / Robert J. Einhorn -- Egypt : frustrated but still on a non-nuclear course / Robert J. Einhorn -- Syria : can the myth be maintained without nukes? / Ellen Laipson -- Saudi Arabia : the calculations of uncertainty / Thomas W. Lippman -- Turkey : nuclear choices amongst dangerous neighbors / Leon Fuerth -- Germany : the model case, a historical imperative / Jenifer Mackby and Walter B. Slocombe -- Japan : thinking the unthinkable / Kurt M. Campbell and Tsuyoshi Sunohara -- South Korea : the tyranny of geography and the vexations of history / Jonathan D. Pollack and Mitchell B. Reiss -- Taiwan's Hsin Chu program : deterrence, abandonment, and honor / Derek J. Mitchell -- Avoiding the tipping point : concluding observations / Kurt M. Campbell and Robert J. Einhorn.
ISBN
  • 0815713304 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0815713312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004010941
OCLC
  • 55208419
  • SCSB-9998164
Owning Institutions
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