Exporting the Bomb : : Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons / / Matthew Kroenig.
In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countri...
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Kroenig, Matthew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Exporting the Bomb : Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons / Matthew Kroenig. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (248 p.) : 1 chart/graphs, 11 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction: The Problem of Nuclear Assistance -- 1. Explaining Nuclear Assistance -- 2. The Correlates of Nuclear Assistance -- 3. Israel's Nuclear Program: French Assistance and U.S. Resistance -- 4. Common Enemies, Growling Dogs, and A. Q. Khan's Pakistan: Nuclear Supply in Other Countries -- 5. Importing the Bomb: Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation -- Conclusion: Preventing Nuclear Proliferation -- Appendixes -- A. Data Appendix for Chapter 2 -- B. Data Appendix for Chapter 5 -- C. Cases of Sensitive Nuclear Assistance -- D. Selected Cases of Nonsensitive Nuclear Assistance -- E. Selected Cases of Nonassistance -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries help others to develop nuclear weapons? Many analysts assume that nuclear transfers are driven by economic considerations. States in dire economic need, they suggest, export sensitive nuclear materials and technology-and ignore the security risk-in a desperate search for hard currency.Kroenig challenges this conventional wisdom. He finds that state decisions to provide sensitive nuclear assistance are the result of a coherent, strategic logic. The spread of nuclear weapons threatens powerful states more than it threatens weak states, and these differential effects of nuclear proliferation encourage countries to provide sensitive nuclear assistance under certain strategic conditions. Countries are more likely to export sensitive nuclear materials and technology when it would have the effect of constraining an enemy and less likely to do so when it would threaten themselves.In Exporting the Bomb, Kroenig examines the most important historical cases, including France's nuclear assistance to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s; the Soviet Union's sensitive transfers to China from 1958 to 1960; China's nuclear aid to Pakistan in the 1980s; and Pakistan's recent technology transfers, with the help of "rogue" scientist A. Q. Khan, from 1987 to 2002. Understanding why states provide sensitive nuclear assistance not only adds to our knowledge of international politics but also aids in international efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Arms transfers Political aspects. Military assistance Political aspects. Nuclear nonproliferation Political aspects. Nuclear weapons Political aspects. Security, International. Technology transfer Political aspects. History. Political Science & Political History. Security Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801448577 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458910 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801458910 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801458910/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction: The Problem of Nuclear Assistance -- 1. Explaining Nuclear Assistance -- 2. The Correlates of Nuclear Assistance -- 3. Israel's Nuclear Program: French Assistance and U.S. Resistance -- 4. Common Enemies, Growling Dogs, and A. Q. Khan's Pakistan: Nuclear Supply in Other Countries -- 5. Importing the Bomb: Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation -- Conclusion: Preventing Nuclear Proliferation -- Appendixes -- A. Data Appendix for Chapter 2 -- B. Data Appendix for Chapter 5 -- C. Cases of Sensitive Nuclear Assistance -- D. Selected Cases of Nonsensitive Nuclear Assistance -- E. Selected Cases of Nonassistance -- Bibliography -- Index |
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