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The Second Nuclear Age

By Colin S. Gray

Book information

Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year
1999
ISBN
9781555873318, 1555873316
Open Library ID
OL9472207M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
857 kB (877389 bytes)
Pages
122\122
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Colin Gray returns nuclear weapons to the center stage of international politics.. "Taking issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control, and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Gray argues that the risk posed by WMD is ever more serious. Policy that ignores the present nuclear age, he cautions, is policy that ignores reality.. "Gray's iconoclastic analysis, which includes a rigorous examination of the major policy and conceptual issues associated with WMD, criticizes traditional approaches to nonproliferation and assaults as fallacious both the aspiration to "abolish" or "marginalize" nuclear weapons and the idea that there is a "nuclear taboo" in universal operation. The Second Nuclear Age dares to specify the policy merit in nuclear weapons today.

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