Unclear Physics - Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons

Klappentext 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 programs. Zusammenfassung 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 programs.

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• Authors: Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Mealfrid Braut-Hegghammer
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781501702785
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-0278-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs; Cornell Studies in Security Affairs; Cornell Studies in Security Af
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science