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Author:   Joseph Rotblat ,  John P. Holdren
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9783642758454

ISBN 10:   3642758452
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   23 August 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

I Strategic Forces and Their Limitation.- Prospects for Strategic Offensive and Defensive Forces.- Reductions in Strategic Nuclear Warheads.- The Role of “Glasnost” in the Future of the Arms Race.- Accidental Nuclear War.- II European Security.- The Vienna Force Reduction Talks: Resolved and Unresolved Tasks.- Problems and Prospects for Negotiations on Short-Range Nuclear Forces.- The Ideological Dimension of European Security.- Non-Military Aspects of European Security.- III Chemical Weapons and Their Control.- Chemical Weapons — Destruction, Conversion or Endless Debate?.- Destruction of Chemical Weapons.- An International Scientific Methodology for Verification of Non-Production of Chemical Weapons.- The Chemical Weapons Convention: Particular Concerns of Developing Countries.- The Chemical Weapons Convention: A Different View.- IV Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Testing.- The Non-Proliferation Treaty: Status of Implementation and the Threatening Developments.- Beyond Non-Proliferation.- The Linkage Between Non-Proliferation, Deterrence Policy, Nuclear Testing and the Arms Race.- V The Arms Trade and Regional Conflict.- Recent Patterns of Arms Trade and Regional Conflict.- The Arms Trade and Regional Conflict: Suppliers’ Policies and Behaviour and Their Consequences.- Socio-Economic Consequences of Arms Transfers.- Control of the Arms Trade as a Contribution to Conflict Prevention.- VI Role of United Nations and Multilateral Organizations in International Security.- The Role of the United Nations and Multilateral Organizations in International Security.- Regional Organizations and Their Contribution to International Security: The Case of ASEAN.- The Role of Regional Organizations in the Maintenance of Peace and Security in Latin America.- VII Energy —Environment — Development Interaction.- Lifestyles, Energy Choices and Development.- Broadening the Global Security Debate: Regional and Global Dialogues on Environmental Issues.- Development of Energy in China and Its Influence on the Environment.- VIII East-West and North-South Cooperation.- Trade and Finance: The Bitter Truth.- New Approaches to South-South Cooperation.- A Decade of Intended Cooperation in Science and Technology — The 1979 Vienna Programme of Action.- The Roles of Transnational Public and Private Mechanisms.- Appendices.- Pugwash Council: Statement on the 39th Pugwash Conference.- Statement of the Pugwash Executive Committee on the Fourth NPT Review Conference in 1990.- Acronyms.- Notes on the Contributors.

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