The Nuclear Tipping Point

Author: Kurt M Campbell
Robert J Einhorn/Mitchell B Reiss
Editor(s): Kurt M Campbell / Robert J Einhorn
Publisher: Manas Publications
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 000
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170492270

Description

More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is the world approaching a tipping point that will unleash an epidemic of nuclear proliferation?

The Nuclear Tipping Point provides a framework for understanding the myriad factors that shape nuclear policy. Case studies of eight long-term stalwarts of the nonproliferation regime-Egypt, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, south Korea, Syria, Taiwan, and Turkey-flesh out this framework and show how even these countries might be pushed over the edge of a nuclear tipping point.