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The opportunity : next steps in reducing nuclear arms /

"For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges f...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pifer, Steven
Corporate Author: Brookings Institution
Other Authors: O'Hanlon, Michael E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2012]
Series:Brookings focus books.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why nuclear arms control should be on the president's agenda in 2013
  • U.S. nuclear policies and forces
  • Strategic nuclear force reductions after new start
  • Addressing nonstrategic nuclear weapons
  • Missile defense issues
  • The comprehensive test ban treaty and stockpile maintenance
  • Fissile materials and a production cutoff
  • Multilateralizing the process-and aspiring to zero?
  • Looking forward.