Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material

Allison, Graham T., Owen R. Cote Jr., Richart A. Falkenrath, and Steven E. Miller

ISBN 10: 026251088X / ISBN 13: 9780262510882

Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1996

Beschreibung

BX5 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the copyright page, and the back endpaper. An analysis of the consequences for US national security of loose nuclear weapons and materials becoming more plentiful and more accessible to rogue states and terrorist groups. The authors also examine the problems and risks associated with nuclear proliferation in general and emphasize the need to prevent any nuclear 'leakage' in the first place. Illustrated with black and white maps. 295p. Size: 6"x9.25".

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SCW10356

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material
• Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 026251088X
• ISBN-13: 9780262510882
• Einband: Trade Paperback
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued
• Buchtyp: Ex-Library
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Politics & Government::International Relations

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Inhaltsangabe

"I cannot think of a more important book . . . The time to read it is now." -- A.M. Rosenthal, The New York Times "Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy grapples with one of the most immediate and most pressing threats to U.S. security interests today: the risk of rampant nuclear proliferation fueled by 'nuclear leakage' from the former Soviet Union. There has never been a more important time for this analysis by some of our nation's leading national security specialists. This book deserves to be widely read and carefully considered." - Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat, Georgia "Expected to have a profound impact on the nuclear debate in Washington. . . the most extensive assessment yet of the nuclear dangers in the post-cold war world." - Financial Times "Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy. . . makes a fundamental contribution to understanding and addressing the problems that have come from the break-up of the Soviet nuclear arsenal." - Rose Gottemoller, Deputy Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London What if the bomb that exploded in Oklahoma City or New York's World Trade Center had used 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium? The destruction would have been far more vast. This danger is not so remote: the recipe for making such a bomb is simple, and soon the ingredients might be easily attained. Thousands of nuclear weapons and hundreds of tons of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium from the weapons complex of the former Soviet Union, poorly guarded and poorly accounted for, could soon leak on to a vast emerging nuclear black market. This study by Graham Allison and three colleagues at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs warns that containing the leakage of nuclear materials--and keeping them out of the hands of groups hostile to the United States--is our nation's highest security priority. As the most open society on a shrinking planet, the United States has no reliable defense against smuggled weap

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Owen Coté is Associate Director of the MIT Security Studies Program and Editor of the journal International Security.

Graham Allison is Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Steven E. Miller is director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center.

Richard A. Falkenrath is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He served as Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and, before that, as a Research Fellow. He is the author and co-author of Shaping Europe's Military Order (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy (1996), America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998), and numerous journal articles and chapters of edited volumes.