Jacques E. C. Hymans

Achieving Nuclear Ambitions

Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful new perspective on nuclear proliferation that counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780521132251
• ISBN-10: 0521132258
• Artikelnr.: 34100368

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.