Twenty-First Century Weapons Proliferation: Are We Ready?James M. Ludes, Henry Sokolski Routledge, 2014 M01 14 - 208 pages Leading US security practitioners fromt he Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, plus other experts on proliferation, clarify the weapons proliferation threats that the US and its allies will face, and suggest what new policies their governments should consider. |
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... thermonuclear warhead detonated nearly 50 miles high over the Pacific by US nuclear weapons scientists on 1 August 1958. The explosion, at least 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that incinerated Nagasaki, produced an amazing ...
... thermonuclear warhead detonated nearly 50 miles high over the Pacific by US nuclear weapons scientists on 1 August 1958. The explosion, at least 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that incinerated Nagasaki, produced an amazing ...
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... nuclear weapons is spreading. One of the ways these weapons might be used against a prosperous nation that is heavily dependent on electronic gear and space-based communications (such as the USA) would be to launch another shot like ...
... nuclear weapons is spreading. One of the ways these weapons might be used against a prosperous nation that is heavily dependent on electronic gear and space-based communications (such as the USA) would be to launch another shot like ...
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... nuclear attack using the effects of electromagnetic pulse or the use of chemical weapons on forward military bases by simply not putting them in war games. That makes it easier for players to look good - a major objective of the modern ...
... nuclear attack using the effects of electromagnetic pulse or the use of chemical weapons on forward military bases by simply not putting them in war games. That makes it easier for players to look good - a major objective of the modern ...
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... nuclear misadventures may not be there to restrain the leaders of smaller nations. In our military literature, we ... weapons of mass destruction will have such accidents. As David C. Rapoport points out, Aum Shinrikyo - the Japanese cult ...
... nuclear misadventures may not be there to restrain the leaders of smaller nations. In our military literature, we ... weapons of mass destruction will have such accidents. As David C. Rapoport points out, Aum Shinrikyo - the Japanese cult ...
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... nuclear weapons. Whatever happened (and it would be good, someday, to find out), I was disturbed to read the essay by Ashton B. Carter and L. Celeste Johnson that says that almost ten years later we still lack essential defenses against ...
... nuclear weapons. Whatever happened (and it would be good, someday, to find out), I was disturbed to read the essay by Ashton B. Carter and L. Celeste Johnson that says that almost ten years later we still lack essential defenses against ...
Contents
HOW APPROPRIATE IS OUR RESPONSE? | |
PART III IS THERE CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM? | |
Notes on Contributors | |
Index | |
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Twenty-first Century Weapons Proliferation: Are We Ready? Henry D. Sokolski,James M. Ludes Limited preview - 2001 |
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