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The Arms Race and Nuclear Proliferation
Following the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the twentieth century was haunted by the specter of nuclear annihilation. Locked in a hostile embrace, the U.S. and the USSR engaged in a ruinous arms race preparing for the kind of war no one wanted and no one could win. Though the Cold War ended, the dangers of nuclear proliferation remain, with poorly secured nuclear weapons and materials vulnerable to theft, sale, accident, or misuse. The many debates over the years surrounding the arms race, proliferation, deterrence, and security are collected here to provide readers with a fine-grained sense of the international tensions, political urgency, diplomatic strategies, and global fears that have long underlined the effort to build and maintain nuclear arsenals.
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The Arms Race and Nuclear Proliferation
Following the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the twentieth century was haunted by the specter of nuclear annihilation. Locked in a hostile embrace, the U.S. and the USSR engaged in a ruinous arms race preparing for the kind of war no one wanted and no one could win. Though the Cold War ended, the dangers of nuclear proliferation remain, with poorly secured nuclear weapons and materials vulnerable to theft, sale, accident, or misuse. The many debates over the years surrounding the arms race, proliferation, deterrence, and security are collected here to provide readers with a fine-grained sense of the international tensions, political urgency, diplomatic strategies, and global fears that have long underlined the effort to build and maintain nuclear arsenals.
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The Arms Race and Nuclear Proliferation

The Arms Race and Nuclear Proliferation

The Arms Race and Nuclear Proliferation

The Arms Race and Nuclear Proliferation

Overview

Following the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the twentieth century was haunted by the specter of nuclear annihilation. Locked in a hostile embrace, the U.S. and the USSR engaged in a ruinous arms race preparing for the kind of war no one wanted and no one could win. Though the Cold War ended, the dangers of nuclear proliferation remain, with poorly secured nuclear weapons and materials vulnerable to theft, sale, accident, or misuse. The many debates over the years surrounding the arms race, proliferation, deterrence, and security are collected here to provide readers with a fine-grained sense of the international tensions, political urgency, diplomatic strategies, and global fears that have long underlined the effort to build and maintain nuclear arsenals.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781534501379
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date: 12/30/2017
Series: Viewpoints on Modern World History Series
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 14 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Introduction 12

Chapter 1 A Blast from the Past and Later Threats

Chapter Preface 17

1 Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was a Mistake Naji Dahi 19

2 Nuclear Nonproliferation: A No-Nonsense International Need George Bunn 27

3 Thirteen Days When the World Cringed Office of the Historian, US Department of State 44

4 We've Been on the Brink of Nuclear War Before Nick Blackbourn 50

5 We Don't Need Nuclear Weapons Marianne Hanson 54

Chapter 2 The Major Players in a Deadly Game

Chapter Preface 60

1 Preventing Nuclear War Without Disarming? Good Luck! United Nations 62

2 Rogue Nations and Nuclear Peril John R. Bolton 79

3 A View from the White House The White House 90

4 Trumps Nuclear Policy: Too Uninformed or Too Early to Tell? Zack Beauchamp 97

5 President Trump Versus North Korea-a Nuclear Catastrophe James Johnson 105

Chapter 3 Planning a Peaceful Future

Chapter Preface 110

1 Getting MAD to Go Away The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training 112

2 Shooting Down the Star Wars Myth Pavel Podvig 129

3 To Dream What Is Not an Impossible Dream? Gareth Evans 133

4 The Invisible Black Swan Seth Baum 148

5 Can World Government Lead to World Disarmament? Edmund A. Opitz 153

Chronology 164

Bibliography 166

Index 169

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