Achieving nuclear ambitions :: scientists, politicians and proliferation /

"Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected. To explain this puzzling slowdown in proliferation, Jacqu...

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Main Author: Hymans, Jacques E. C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected. To explain this puzzling slowdown in proliferation, Jacques E.C. Hymans focuses on the relations between politicians and scientific and technical workers in developing countries. By undermining the workers' spirit of professionalism, developing country rulers unintentionally thwart their own nuclear ambitions. Combining rich theoretical analysis, in-depth historical case studies of Iraq, China, Yugoslavia and Argentina and insightful analyses of current-day proliferant states, Achieving Nuclear Ambitions develops a powerful new perspective that effectively counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781139233477
1139233475
9781139049429
1139049429

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