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Deadly Arsenals Miriam Rajkumar

Deadly Arsenals By Miriam Rajkumar

Deadly Arsenals by Miriam Rajkumar


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Deadly Arsenals provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment available on global proliferation dangers, with a critical assessment of international enforcement efforts.

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Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats by Miriam Rajkumar

Deadly Arsenals provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment available on global proliferation dangers, with a critical assessment of international enforcement efforts. An invaluable resource for academics, policymakers, students, and the media, this atlas includes strategic and historical analysis; maps, charts, and graphs of the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems; descriptions of the weapons and regimes -and policies to control them; and data on countries that have, want, or have given up weapons of mass destruction. A Choice outstanding academic title from one of the premier nonproliferation research teams. The new edition addresses the recent, dramatic developments in Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and the nuclear black market, analyzing strategic and policy implications.
Contents:
  • Part 1: Assessments and Weapons
  • Part 2: Declared Nuclear-Weapon States
  • Part 3: Non-NPT Nuclear-Weapon States
  • Part 4: The Two Hard Cases: North Korea and Iran
  • Part 5: Proliferation Success
  • Deadly Arsenals Reviews

    An essential guide to understanding the nature of the proliferation problem, DEADLY ARSENALS provides up-to-date and reliable information about who has what where, and illustrates the tools at our disposal to respond to these dangerous threats. -Senator Richard Lugar, United States Senate

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    Chapters are devoted to a thorough analysis of the eight nuclear weapons states, the two 'hard cases' (North Korea and Iran) and 'nonproliferation successes' (eight countries that have backed off). - Future Survey, 11/1/2005

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    In addition to excellent analyses of the difficult proliferation cases of Iran and North Korea, Deadly Arsenals has the virtue of demonstrating that nuclear proliferation is not a one-way street and can be reversed -William C. Potter, Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Inistitute, Chronicle of Higher Education

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    Deadly Arsenals... offers a comprehensive and authoritative snapshot of today's proliferation challenges. Excellent informative tables summarize proliferation specifics in the countries examined. For anyone wanting to 'get smart' on the proliferation challenge... Deadly Arsenals is the place to start. - Survival, International Institute for Strategic Studies

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    Deadly Arsenals is a fascinating read that will appeal to both the practitioner with experience in the field as well as the layman. It is also an outstanding reference and is replete with ample tables, maps, and appendices that might well make this book a definitive research resource in this field for sometime to come. - Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute

    About Miriam Rajkumar

    Joseph Cirincione , senior associate and director of nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, USA, is coauthor of the major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security , and editor of Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Routledge, 2000). He is a frequent commentator on proliferation and security issues. Jon B. Wolfsthal is associate and deputy director of nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment, USA. He is coauthor of Universal Compliance and coeditor of Nuclear Status Report: Nuclear Weapons , Fissile Material , and Export Controls in the Former Soviet Union (Carnegie/Monterey, 2001). Miriam Rajkumar is the project associate for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment, USA.

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    CIN087003216XG
    9780870032165
    087003216X
    Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats by Miriam Rajkumar
    Used - Good
    Paperback
    Brookings Institution
    20050713
    525
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