Unclear Physics : : Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons /

Unclear Physics : : Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons / / Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer.

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Many authoritarian leaders want nuclear weapons, but few manage to acquire them. Autocrats seeking nuclear weapons fail in different ways and to varying degrees-Iraq almost managed it; Libya did not come close. In Unclear Physics, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer compares the two failed nuclear weapons prog...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Braut-Hegghammer, Målfrid,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 halftones, 3 line figures, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Iraq
  • 1. Iraq Explores the Atom, 1956-1973
  • 2. Ambiguity and Ambition, 1973-1981
  • 3. Saddam's Nuclear Weapons Program, 1981-1987
  • 4. Crises and a Crash Program, 1988-1991
  • Part II. Libya
  • 5. Searching for Uranium in Libya, 1951-1973
  • 6. Cultural Revolution and Nuclear Power, 1973-1981
  • 7. Nuclear Weapons Remain Elusive, 1982-1989
  • 8. Sanctions, Centrifuges, and Exit, 1989-2003
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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