Nuclear politics : the strategic causes of proliferation /

When do states acquire nuclear weapons? Overturning a decade of scholarship focusing on other factors, Debs and Monteiro show in Nuclear Politics that proliferation is driven by security concerns. Proliferation occurs only when a state has both the willingness and opportunity to build the bomb. A st...

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Main Authors:	Debs, Alexandre (Author), Monteiro, Nuno P. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:	Cambridge studies in international relations ; 142.
Subjects:	Nuclear nonproliferation. Nuclear weapons > Government policy. Strategic culture. Atomstrategie. Besitz. Kernwaffe.