Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs - Softcover

Potter, William C.; Bidgood, Sarah; Meyer, Samuel; Notte, Hanna

 
9781503637658: Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs
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ISBN 10: 1503637654 ISBN 13: 9781503637658
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2023

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The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)—weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation—through a series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt. The authors illuminate the historical drivers of and impediments to radiological weapons innovation. They also examine how new, dire geopolitical events—such as the war in Ukraine—could encourage other states to pursue RW and analyze the impact of the spread of such weapons on nuclear deterrence and the nonproliferation regime. Death Dust presents practical, necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of a resurgence of interest in and pursuit of radiological weapons by state actors.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William C. Potter is Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and Founding Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS).Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at CNS.Samuel Meyer is a nuclear and radiological security analyst in the Washington, DC area.Hanna Notte is a Senior Research Associate with the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1503637654
ISBN 13 
9781503637658
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220
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