Strategic Nuclear Sharing
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 217 pages
978-1-349-45236-1 (ISBN)
Description
The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War.
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Edition
2014 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 217 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
283 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-45236-1 (9781349452361)
DOI
10.1057/9781137298454
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J. Schofield
Strategic Nuclear Sharing
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01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
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Julian Schofield is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Canada and a retired Army Engineer Officer. He is the author of Militarization and War (2007), and with Usama Butt, Pakistan: the US, Geopolitics and Grand Strategies (2012). He has conducted research in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt and Indonesia.
Content
1. Introduction: Nuclear Sharing and Why More May Be Better 2. Theories of Nuclear Non-Sharing 3. The Theory of Nuclear Sharing 4. Nuclear Proliferation Races and Nonproliferation Bargains 5. Wartime Cooperation: The Early Cases of Nuclear Sharing 6. The Nature of Off-The-Shelf Requests 7. French Nuclear Assistance to Israel 8. The USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact and Cuba 9. Sharing within the Western Alliance 10. Israel and South Africa - Nuclear Collaboration 11. Chinese Nuclear Assistance to Pakistan and North Korea 12. Nuclear Sharing and Pakistan, North Korea and Iran 13. Soft Nuclear Sharing 14. Conclusion