Seeking the Bomb (eBook)

Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation

Vipin Narang (Autor)

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2022
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22306-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics.Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, Vipin Narang develops an original typology of proliferation strategies-hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. Narang delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program.As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, Seeking the Bomb explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus. 5 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Abdul Qadeer Khan • Agreed Framework • Airspace • Antenna (radio) • Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Atomic Age • Avner Cohen • Axis of Evil • Bait and bleed • Baruch Plan • Beijing • Bharat Karnad • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Center for International Security and Cooperation • Cold War • commissioner • Communist Party of China • Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty • counter-proliferation • David Albright • Disarmament • doublethink • dual-use technology • Energy Market • escape velocity • exothermic reaction • Experiment • Falklands War • Fizzle (nuclear test) • Flexible Response • Force de dissuasion • German question • German re-armament • Great Satan • Igor Kurchatov • Intention (criminal law) • Interim • International Atomic Energy Agency • John F. Kennedy • John Mearsheimer • Kinetic bombardment • Klaus Fuchs • Konrad Adenauer • Kuwait • Military Dictatorship • misinformation • Modernity • Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact • Munir Ahmad Khan • Nobility • North Korean defectors • Nuclear blackmail • Nuclear disarmament • nuclear proliferation • nuclear sharing • nuclear strategy • Nuclear Tipping Point • nuclear umbrella • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Operation Barbarossa • Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction • pakistanis • Paramount leader • Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty • Peaceful Nuclear explosion • Plutonium • Post-Soviet States • Qasem Soleimani • Quebec Agreement • Ramp up • Reactor-grade plutonium • Red Army • Reprisal • Ronen Sen • Russia and weapons of mass destruction • Sabotage • Saudis • Scott Sagan • Security assurance • security studies • South Africa and weapons of mass destruction • Soviet Empire • Spark gap • Superiority (short story) • Supply Chain • Swedish nuclear weapons program • Symington Amendment • Tacit Knowledge • Tactical nuclear weapon • Taepodong-2 • The Indian Express • The Making of the Atomic Bomb • Theory of International Politics • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics • Three Non-Nuclear Principles • Trinity (nuclear test) • Two-front war • Vela Incident
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22306-8 / 0691223068
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22306-3 / 9780691223063