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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... cruise missiles , 3,000 sea - launched cruise missiles , and 15 Trident submarines with 360 Trident 1 Slbms . Funds also were appropriated for the development of the Stealth bomber , designated the B - 2 , and for accelerated ...
... cruise missiles , 3,000 sea - launched cruise missiles , and 15 Trident submarines with 360 Trident 1 Slbms . Funds also were appropriated for the development of the Stealth bomber , designated the B - 2 , and for accelerated ...
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... missile , designated the D - 5 , which would have the capability to destroy " hardened " Soviet Icbm silos . Of ... cruise missiles were to be deployed on attack submarines and surface ships . F - 4 Phantom attack planes in the ...
... missile , designated the D - 5 , which would have the capability to destroy " hardened " Soviet Icbm silos . Of ... cruise missiles were to be deployed on attack submarines and surface ships . F - 4 Phantom attack planes in the ...
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... missiles , such as the Soviet ss- 18. In addition , the total number of warheads on strategic missiles would be cut to about 5,000 . Of that number , no more than 2,500 could be on Icbms . Yet limits on bombers and cruise missiles were ...
... missiles , such as the Soviet ss- 18. In addition , the total number of warheads on strategic missiles would be cut to about 5,000 . Of that number , no more than 2,500 could be on Icbms . Yet limits on bombers and cruise missiles were ...
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... cruise missiles and other bomber armament , and modest reductions in the Salt Ii Mirv sublimits.20 Needless to say , the Soviet proposal was unacceptable to the Reagan administration . A nuclear freeze would have left the Soviet Icbm ...
... cruise missiles and other bomber armament , and modest reductions in the Salt Ii Mirv sublimits.20 Needless to say , the Soviet proposal was unacceptable to the Reagan administration . A nuclear freeze would have left the Soviet Icbm ...
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... cruise missiles in Western Europe , an action that had been approved by Nato in 1979. Like the Carter administra- tion , which had supported deployment of the new weapons , Reagan believed that stationing these missiles in Western ...
... cruise missiles in Western Europe , an action that had been approved by Nato in 1979. Like the Carter administra- tion , which had supported deployment of the new weapons , Reagan believed that stationing these missiles in Western ...
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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Expressions et termes fréquents
Able Archer 83 ABM Treaty addition administration's agreed agreement ALCMS announced argued Arms Control Today attack Baker ballistic missile defense billion bomb bombers Bush administration Bush's called capability China Clinton administration Congress congressional Control Today 22 cruise missiles CTBT defense system deployed deployment deterrent eliminate fissile material Gorbachev hard-liners Ibid ICBMS India INF Treaty Initiative interceptors Iran Iraq Kazakhstan kilometers land-based launch launchers limits ment military MIRVed Moscow MTCR national missile defense National Security negotiations Nonproliferation nonweapon North Korea nuclear arms race nuclear arsenal nuclear forces nuclear materials nuclear testing nuclear warheads nuclear weapons October Pakistan percent permitted plutonium president proliferation ratified reactors Republican Russian SALT II Senate September Shevardnadze Shultz sides siles SLBMS Soviet Union space-based START II Strategic Defense strategic nuclear summit talks targets Test Ban Treaty THAAD threat tion TMD systems U.S. nuclear Ukraine unilateral United Yeltsin
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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 |