Atomic Assistance : How "Atoms for Peace" Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity /
Nuclear technology is dual use in nature, meaning that it can be used to produce nuclear energy or to build nuclear weapons. Despite security concerns about proliferation, the United States and other nuclear nations have regularly shared with other countries nuclear technology, materials, and knowle...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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- Atomic Assistance
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Unintended Consequences in International Politics
- 1. Definitions and Patterns of Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation
- Part I: Atoms for Peace
- 2. Economic Statecraft and Atoms for Peace: A Theory of Peaceful Nuclear Assistance
- 3. The Historical Record: A First Cut
- 4. Nuclear Arms and Influence: Assisting India, Iran, and Libya
- 5. The Thirst for Oil and Other Motives: Nine Puzzling Cases of Assistance
- 6. Oil for Peaceful Nuclear Assistance?Part II: Atoms for War
- 7. Spreading Temptation: Why Nuclear Export Strategies Backfire
- 8. Who Builds Bombs? How Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Facilitates the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
- 9. Have International Institutions Made the World Safer?
- Conclusion: What Peaceful Nuclear Assistance Teaches Us about International Relations
- Notes
- Index