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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... deterrent to the development of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, as the new millennium approaches, I have become less optimistic that humanity can avert some form of nuclear catastrophe, and thus the title of this book: Return to ...
... deterrent to the development of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, as the new millennium approaches, I have become less optimistic that humanity can avert some form of nuclear catastrophe, and thus the title of this book: Return to ...
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... deterrent to the massive conventional forces of the Soviet Union. Compared to maintaining large conventional forces, which the American people were not inclined to support during peacetime, nuclear weapons were inexpensive to construct ...
... deterrent to the massive conventional forces of the Soviet Union. Compared to maintaining large conventional forces, which the American people were not inclined to support during peacetime, nuclear weapons were inexpensive to construct ...
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... deterrent force. Even though the air force won that contest, the army and navy were placated with nuclear weapon systems of their own. In the sixties and seventies, the air force lobbied vigorously for what would become the B-I bomber ...
... deterrent force. Even though the air force won that contest, the army and navy were placated with nuclear weapon systems of their own. In the sixties and seventies, the air force lobbied vigorously for what would become the B-I bomber ...
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... deterrent relationship so complicated by the emergence of a multiplicity of nuclear weapon states that deterrence itself might become impossible and a superpower nuclear war inevitable. Indeed, the dawn of the 1980s would bring to the ...
... deterrent relationship so complicated by the emergence of a multiplicity of nuclear weapon states that deterrence itself might become impossible and a superpower nuclear war inevitable. Indeed, the dawn of the 1980s would bring to the ...
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... deterrent strategy since the early 1960s, MAD called for the United States to ride out a Soviet nuclear first-strike attack and still have sufficient forces remaining to deliver a devastating retaliatory attack on the Soviet Union.4 To ...
... deterrent strategy since the early 1960s, MAD called for the United States to ride out a Soviet nuclear first-strike attack and still have sufficient forces remaining to deliver a devastating retaliatory attack on the Soviet Union.4 To ...
Table des matières
The Reagan AboutFace | |
Bush and START I | |
Clinton START II and the ABM Treaty | |
Clinton and Counterproliferation | |
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