Achieving Nuclear Ambitions - Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation

Informationen zum Autor Jacques E. C. Hymans is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. An expert on the politics of nuclear proliferation, he has published two single-authored books with Cambridge University Press, and numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Hymans received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. Klappentext A powerful new perspective on nuclear proliferation that counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.From Iraq to Iran and from Libya to North Korea, recent attempts to join the club of nuclear powers have tended to lose their momentum or even to fail outright. This book shows how developing country rulers unintentionally thwart their own nuclear ambitions by undermining their scientific and technical workers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The puzzle of declining nuclear weapons project efficiency; 2. A theory of nuclear weapons project efficiency and inefficiency; 3. Spinning in place: Iraq's fruitless quest for nuclear weapons; 4. How did China's nuclear weapons project succeed?; 5. Proliferation implications of civil nuclear cooperation: theory and a case study of Tito's Yugoslavia; 6. Proliferation implications of footloose nuclear scientists: theory and a case study of Perón's Argentina; 7. Empirical extensions: Libya, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran; 8. Lessons for policy and directions for future research.

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• Authors: Jacques E C Hymans, Jacques E. C. Hymans, Jacques E. C. (Associate Professor of Inte Hymans, Hymans Jacques E. C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2012
• EAN: 9780521132251
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13225-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Nuclear weapons, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy, Social security & welfare law