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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... biological weapons use with threats of nuclear retaliation without encouraging nations to acquire nuclear weapons as well ? Also , in de- veloping ways to operate and prevail against other nations ' uses of chemical , biological , or ...
... biological weapons might have on U.S. forces.26 A little over a year after Secretary Aspin's announcement of the Counterproliferation Initiative , the Navy incorpo- rated nuclear , biological , and chemical weapons threats into their ...
... biological agent detectors ) . Finally , in 1999 , the depart- ment announced it would spend approximately $ 1 billion over the next five years to address these deficiencies.27 Although the military has re- ceived protection against ...
Contents
The Baruch Plan | 13 |
Atoms for Peace | 25 |
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty | 39 |
Copyright | |
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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 |