Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999Oxford University Press, 9 mars 2000 - 304 pages When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear confrontation between superpowers appeared to vanish overnight. As we approach the new millennium, however, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to ever more belligerent countries and factions raises alarming new concerns about the threat of nuclear war. In Return to Armageddon, Ronald Powaski assesses the dangers that beset us as we enter an increasingly unstable political world. With the START I and II treaties, completed by George Bush in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), signed by Bill Clinton in 1996, it seemed as if the nuclear clock had been successfully turned back to a safer hour. But Powaski shows that there is much less reason for optimism than we may like to think. Continued U.S.-Russian cooperation can no longer be assured. To make matters worse, Russia has not ratified the START II Treaty and the U.S. Senate has failed to approve the CTBT. Perhaps even more ominously, the effort to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons by nonweapon states is threatened by nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan. The nuclear club is growing and its most recent members are increasingly hostile. Indeed, it is becoming ever more difficult to keep track of the expertise and material needed to build nuclear weapons, which almost certainly will find their way into terrorist hands. Accessible, authoritative, and provocative, Return to Armageddon provides both a comprehensive account of the arms control process and a startling reappraisal of the nuclear threat that refuses to go away. |
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... test ban treaty ( ctbt ) . This agreement requires its parties to refrain from conducting nuclear weapons tests ... Treaty . The inability of the Clinton administration to maintain a common policy with Russia toward Iraq is another ...
... test ban treaty ( ctbt ) . This agreement requires its parties to refrain from conducting nuclear weapons tests ... Treaty . The inability of the Clinton administration to maintain a common policy with Russia toward Iraq is another ...
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... Test Ban Treaty , which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere , in outer space , or beneath the surface of the seas . America's willingness to engage in nuclear diplomacy with the Soviets was to a large extent made ...
... Test Ban Treaty , which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere , in outer space , or beneath the surface of the seas . America's willingness to engage in nuclear diplomacy with the Soviets was to a large extent made ...
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... Treaty in the same year placed major restric- tions on the development and deployment of antiballistic missile ... test ban treaty . More ominously , the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan prompted Carter to adopt a nuclear strategy that ...
... Treaty in the same year placed major restric- tions on the development and deployment of antiballistic missile ... test ban treaty . More ominously , the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan prompted Carter to adopt a nuclear strategy that ...
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... treaty the deployment of weapon systems developed for bargaining — or for intimidation — pur- poses . One example of ... test ban agreement in the late 1950s and early 1960s . Despite overwhelming political reasons for ending the nuclear ...
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... Test Ban Treaty . Jimmy Carter approved the deployment of the Mx Icbm , the Pershing II intermediate - range ballistic mis- sile ( irbm ) , and the Tomahawk cruise missile in order to gain Pentagon sup- port for the Salt ll Treaty . The ...
... Test Ban Treaty . Jimmy Carter approved the deployment of the Mx Icbm , the Pershing II intermediate - range ballistic mis- sile ( irbm ) , and the Tomahawk cruise missile in order to gain Pentagon sup- port for the Salt ll Treaty . The ...
Table des matières
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2 The Reagan AboutFace | 39 |
3 Bush and START I | 83 |
4 Bush and START II | 128 |
5 Clinton START II and the ABM Treaty | 165 |
6 Clinton and Counterproliferation | 205 |
The Enduring Nuclear Threat | 251 |
Afterword | 259 |
Acronyms and Technical Terms | 273 |
Notes | 277 |
Suggested Readings | 297 |
Index | 301 |
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Page 29 - What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?
Page 78 - Each party shall in exercising its national sovereignty have the right to withdraw from the treaty if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country.
Page 56 - Second, a new treaty signed now would provide that if, after 1991, either side should decide to deploy such a system, that side would be obliged to offer a plan for sharing the benefits of strategic defense and for eliminating offensive ballistic missiles.
Page 194 - It is the policy of the United States to deploy as soon as is technologically possible an effective National Missile Defense system capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack (whether accidental, unauthorized, or deliberate) with funding subject to the annual authorization of appropriations and the annual appropriation of funds for National Missile Defense.
Page 55 - Gorbachev advanced publicly a "plan" calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons by the end of the century.
Page 29 - I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Page 33 - V prohibits the development and testing of ABM systems or components that are sea-based, air-based, space-based, or mobile land-based.
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Ballistic Missile Defense and the Future of American Security: Agendas ... Roger Handberg Aucun aperçu disponible - 2002 |