Security without nuclear deterrence:

This book exposes the contradictions and fallacies of nuclear deterrence, and concludes that nuclear weapons undermine rather than enhance security. Positioning nuclear disarmament as a security-building process, the author offers alternative routes to co-operative security without nuclear weapons,...

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Main Author: Green, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Christchurch, N.Z. Astron Media 2010
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Summary:This book exposes the contradictions and fallacies of nuclear deterrence, and concludes that nuclear weapons undermine rather than enhance security. Positioning nuclear disarmament as a security-building process, the author offers alternative routes to co-operative security without nuclear weapons, based on more humane, lawful and safer strategies to deter aggression. The arguments he raises are critical if there is to be any serious prospect of eliminating nuclear weapons
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Why I rejected nuclear deterrence -- A brief history -- Nuclear deterrence in the real world -- Nuclear deterrence and proliferation : Isreal, India and Pakistan -- Safer security strategies
Physical Description:272 p. ill., maps 24 cm

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