Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999Oxford University Press, 20 févr. 2003 - 320 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 sealaunched cruise missiles, and 15 Trident submarines with 360 Trident I SLBMS. Funds also were appropriated for the development of the Stealth bomber, designated the B-2, and for accelerated development of the ...
... cruise missiles, 3,000 sealaunched cruise missiles, and 15 Trident submarines with 360 Trident I SLBMS. Funds also were appropriated for the development of the Stealth bomber, designated the B-2, and for accelerated development of the ...
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... missiles over a five- to ten-year period. The size of the proposed reductions was roughly one-half the then-current ... cruise missiles were excluded from this first stage of START, since they were a category of weapons in which the ...
... missiles over a five- to ten-year period. The size of the proposed reductions was roughly one-half the then-current ... cruise missiles were excluded from this first stage of START, since they were a category of weapons in which the ...
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... cruise missile limits in the second stage of the talks.19 Not surprisingly, the Soviets rejected Reagan's Eureka proposal. Acceptance would have required Moscow to scrap about 1,500 strategic missiles, compared to about 850 for the ...
... cruise missile limits in the second stage of the talks.19 Not surprisingly, the Soviets rejected Reagan's Eureka proposal. Acceptance would have required Moscow to scrap about 1,500 strategic missiles, compared to about 850 for the ...
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... missiles, instead of concentrating exclusively on missiles. Furthermore, it contained no provision for the ... cruise missile deployments, it would have permitted cruise missile development, testing, and production, thereby allowing the ...
... missiles, instead of concentrating exclusively on missiles. Furthermore, it contained no provision for the ... cruise missile deployments, it would have permitted cruise missile development, testing, and production, thereby allowing the ...
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... cruise missiles in Western Europe, an action that had been approved by NATO in 1979. Like the Carter administration, which had supported deployment of the new weapons, Reagan believed that stationing these missiles in Western Europe was ...
... cruise missiles in Western Europe, an action that had been approved by NATO in 1979. Like the Carter administration, which had supported deployment of the new weapons, Reagan believed that stationing these missiles in Western Europe was ...
Table des matières
The Reagan AboutFace | |
Bush and START I | |
Clinton START II and the ABM Treaty | |
Clinton and Counterproliferation | |
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