Achieving Nuclear Ambitions Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation

Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected. To explain this puzzling slowdown in proliferation, Jacques E....

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1. Verfasser: Hymans, Jacques E. C.
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 16.02.2012
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Schlagworte:
Case studies
China
Developing countries
Foreign relations
International relations
Iraq
Nuclear non-proliferation
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear nonproliferation > Developing countries
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons > Developing countries
Political theory
Politicians
Yugoslavia
ISBN:9780521132251, 0521767008, 0521132258, 9780521767002
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Zusammenfassung:Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected. To explain this puzzling slowdown in proliferation, Jacques E. C. Hymans focuses on the relations between politicians and scientific and technical workers in developing countries. By undermining the workers' spirit of professionalism, developing country rulers unintentionally thwart their own nuclear ambitions. Combining rich theoretical analysis, in-depth historical case studies of Iraq, China, Yugoslavia and Argentina and insightful analyses of current-day proliferant states, Achieving Nuclear Ambitions develops a powerful new perspective that effectively counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-307) and index
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ISBN:9780521132251
0521767008
0521132258
9780521767002
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139049429