Achieving nuclear ambitions : scientists, politicians and proliferation /

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"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, Jacqu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hymans, Jacques E. C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Nuclear weapons > Developing countries.
Nuclear nonproliferation > Developing countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 The puzzle of declining nuclear weapons project efficiency 1
  • 2 A theory of nuclear weapons project efficiency and inefficiency 41
  • 3 Spinning in place: Iraq's fruitless quest for nuclear weapons 79
  • 4 How did China's nuclear weapons project succeed? 124
  • 5 Proliferation implications of international civil nuclear cooperation: theory and a case study of Tito's Yugoslavia 157
  • 6 Proliferation implications of footloose nuclear scientists: theory and a case study of Peron's Argentina 203
  • 7 Empirical extensions: Libya, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran 239
  • 8 Lessons for policymakers and directions for future research 262.

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