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Achieving nuclear ambitions : scientists, politicians and proliferation /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hymans, Jacques E. C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons > Developing countries.
Nuclear nonproliferation > Developing countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. The puzzle of declining nuclear weapons project efficiency; 2. A theory of nuclear weapons project implementation; 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: USSR, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran; 8. Lessons for policy.