Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century: The New Disorder

by Cimbala; Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780415552288
• ISBN10: 0415552281
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Alternative nuclear regimes	p. 9
Technology innovation and deterrence in the future	p. 32
Nuclear abolition or limitation? Choices and risks	p. 49
Nuclear first use: facing the inevitable, or playing with fire?	p. 66
U.S.-Russian nuclear force reductions after Bush: prospects and implications	p. 85
The far side: theoretical (and practical) nuclear worlds ahead	p. 99
Nuclear proliferation in Asia: containment or chaos?	p. 114
Russia's undersea nuclear deterrent: vanishing or modernizing?	p. 129
Conclusion	p. 145
Notes	p. 155
Selected bibliography	p. 172
Index	p. 181
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