| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong -- these weapons, possessed by states large and small, stable and unstable, remain an ongoing nightmare. Joe Cirincione surveys the best thinking and worst fears of experts specializing in nuclear warfare and assesses the efforts to reduce or eliminate these nuclear dangers. His book offers hope: in the 1960s, twenty-three states had. |
| Contents |
Part I. Promise ; Legacy ; Pivot -- Part II. Nightmares. Arsenals & accidents ; Calculating Armageddon ; Exploding budgets ; The 95 percent ; The most dangerous country on Earth -- Part III. Solutions. Posture & proliferation ; The end of proliferation ; Foundations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nuclear nonproliferation.
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Nuclear nonproliferation. |
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Nuclear terrorism -- Prevention.
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Nuclear terrorism -- Prevention. |
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Nuclear terrorism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231164047 0231164041 (DLC) 2013026169 |
| ISBN |
0231535767 (electronic book) |
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9780231535762 (electronic book) |
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9780231164047 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231164041 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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