Nuclear Logics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear Logics write by Etel Solingen. This book was released on 2009-02-09. Nuclear Logics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns. In East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and North Korea, which makes no secret of its nuclear ambitions, is the anomaly. In the Middle East the opposite is the case, with Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Libya suspected of pursuing nuclear-weapons capabilities, with Egypt as the anomaly in recent decades. Identifying the domestic conditions underlying these divergent paths, Solingen argues that there are clear differences between states whose leaders advocate integration in the global economy and those that reject it. Among the former are countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, whose leaders have had stronger incentives to avoid the political, economic, and other costs of acquiring nuclear weapons. The latter, as in most cases in the Middle East, have had stronger incentives to exploit nuclear weapons as tools in nationalist platforms geared to helping their leaders survive in power. Solingen complements her bold argument with other logics explaining nuclear behavior, including security dilemmas, international norms and institutions, and the role of democracy and authoritarianism. Her account charts the most important frontier in understanding nuclear proliferation: grasping the relationship between internal and external political survival. Nuclear Logics is a pioneering book that is certain to provide an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and practitioners while reframing the policy debate surrounding nonproliferation.
The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy
The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy write by Matthew Kroenig. This book was released on 2018. The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation capability, no sane leader would intentionally launch a nuclear attack against it, and nuclear deterrence will hold. According to this theory, possessing more weapons than necessary for a second-strike capability is illogical. This argument is reasonable, but, when compared to the empirical record, it raises an important puzzle. Empirically, we see that the United States has always maintained a nuclear posture that is much more robust than a mere second-strike capability. In The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy, Matthew Kroenig challenges the conventional wisdom and explains why a robust nuclear posture, above and beyond a mere second-strike capability, contributes to a state's national security goals. In fact, when a state has a robust nuclear weapons force, such a capability reduces its expected costs in a war, provides it with bargaining leverage, and ultimately enhances nuclear deterrence. This book provides a novel theoretical explanation for why military nuclear advantages translate into geopolitical advantages. In so doing, it helps resolve one of the most-intractable puzzles in international security studies. Buoyed by an innovative thesis and a vast array of historical and quantitative evidence, The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy will force scholars to reconsider their basic assumptions about the logic of nuclear deterrence.
The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War
The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War write by Bruce G. Blair. This book was released on 1993. The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. POLITICS/CURRENT EVENTS
Nuclear Politics
Nuclear Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear Politics write by Alexandre Debs. This book was released on 2017. Nuclear Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive theory of the causes of nuclear proliferation, alongside an in-depth analysis of sixteen historical cases of nuclear development.
Image and Logic
Image and Logic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Image and Logic write by Peter Galison. This book was released on 1997-10. Image and Logic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions.
