Overview

SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is an independent institute for scientific research, which aims to further an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts and for a stable peace. Over the past twenty years, SIPRI has concentrated on problems of armaments, disarmament, and arms regulation. SIPRI is financed mainly by the Swedish Parliament. Its staff, the Governing Board, and the Scientific Council are international. The prospect of large reductions of nuclear weapons poses fundamental questions about the purpose of nuclear weapons. Why have some states chosen to acquire nuclear weapons? How - and why - have these decisions been maintained over time? Why have some states elected to approach, but not cross, the nuclear threshold? This book examines the commonalities and differences in political approaches to nuclear weapons both within and among three groups of states: nuclear, non-nuclear, and threshold. The chapters explore the evolution of thinking about nuclear weapons and the role these weapons play in national security planning. The book transcends traditional East-West approaches to analysis of nuclear issues by giving equal prominence to the issues of nuclear proliferation and non-nuclearism. The book also provides a comprehensive analysis of how current approaches to nuclear weapons have evolved both within and among the countries under study.

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Author:   Regina Cowen Karp (, SIPRI)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780198278399

ISBN 10:   019827839
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   07 March 1991
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction; Security with Nuclear Weapons? - Origins of the Query; II: The Nuclear Weapon States: William H. Kincade: The USA: Nuclear Decision-Making, 1939-89; Robert J. Art: The USA: Nuclear Weapons and Grand Strategy; Allen Lynch: The USSR: Nuclear Weapons and their Role in Security Policy; Sergei Koulik: The USSR: Aspects of Domestic and Strategic Nuclear Weapon Policy; Stuart Croft and Phil Williams: Great Britain; Klaus Schubert: France; Gerald Segal: China; III: The Nuclear Threshold States: George H. Quester: Nuclear threshold status: a brief analysis; Yair Evron: Israel; Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse: Argentina and Brazil; Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik: India and Pakistan; IV: The non-nuclear weapon states: Harald Muller: Non-nuclear weapon states: why Do They Exist?; John Barrett: Canada; Lars Wallin: Sweden

Reviews

'a useful volume, not least because of some very intelligent analysis of the motives of states such as India, Pakistan and Israel' Paul Rogers, Bradford University, Global Security, Spring 1993 'Dr Regina Cowen Karp ... has tackled the subject creditably well. Chapters on nuclear perceptions of India, Pakistan and China are of particular interest.' Maj Gen MM Walia, SM, USI Journal, Jan-March 1992

There is no other single book with this one's focus and depth, combining arms control, strategy, and international politics while exploring the process utopia methodology. It will be useful to both professionals and students, whether realists or disarmers, and may help us all think more clearly about the true shape and content of the 'nuclear question'. --Perspectives on Political Science<br>

<br> There is no other single book with this one's focus and depth, combining arms control, strategy, and international politics while exploring the process utopia methodology. It will be useful to both professionals and students, whether realists or disarmers, and may help us all think more clearly about the true shape and content of the 'nuclear question'. --Perspectives on Political Science<br>

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