Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons ProliferationAlthough the United States efforts to prevent the spread of strategic weapons have varied significantly since 1945, they all presumed to be avoiding one or another type of strategic war. To the extent their military scenarios were sound, so too were the nonproliferation remedies these initiatives promoted. But, as Sokolski demonstrates, the obverse was also true--when these intiatives' military hopes and fears were mistaken, their nonproliferation recommendations also missed their mark. |
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... inspections of national nuclear activ- ities would only make matters worse . As the Acheson - Lilienthal report explained : Take the case of a controlled reactor , a power pile , producing plutonium . Assume an international agreement ...
... inspections that lived up to Article III's requirement to " avoid hampering " nations ' " techno- logical development , " and that were in accordance with the NPT's desire to focus on the " flow " of source and special fissionable ...
... inspections . It is unclear if even special IAEA inspections could provide sufficient warning of dangerous activities in these politically tur- bulent nations . IAEA monitoring of plutonium fabrication and repro- cessing activities in ...
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Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation Henry D. Sokolski No preview available - 2001 |
Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation Henry D. Sokolski No preview available - 2001 |