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Strategy-policy mismatch : how the U.S. Army can help close gaps in countering weapons of mass destruction
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ISBN: 9780833089892 0833089897 9780833086310 0833086316 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation,

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Individual preparedness and response to chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological terrorists attacks : a quick guide
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ISBN: 1282451472 9786612451478 0833036076 0833034871 9780833036070 9780833034878 1282940449 9786612940446 0833050362 9780833050366 Year: 2003 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Public Safety and Justice,

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Even people who consider themselves prepared to deal with common emergencies might not know what to do during a chemical, radiological, nuclear, or biological attack. This quick guide offers suggestions about how individuals can prepare for such attacks and what actions they can take during each type of attack to protect their own health and safety--and, possibly, their own lives


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Building partner capacity to combat weapons of mass destruction
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ISBN: 128228309X 9786612283093 0833047213 0833045520 9780833047212 9780833045522 Year: 2009 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND,

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Limited resources, access, and incomplete knowledge of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats create a need for working with appropriate partner countries around the world to address these challenging threats. This monograph outlines and then applies a four-step process for developing regional approaches to building partner capacity (BPC) to combat WMD.


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A Nuclear Refrain : Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest
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ISBN: 1950192628 9781950192625 195019261X Year: 2019 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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A Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK's decision to replace its Vanguard submarines, so-called Trident replacement. We challenge that decision via extending our geographical imaginations into the past, present, and future. Noting the more usual economic, moral, and strategic objections to Trident and its replacement, A Nuclear Refrain considers the issues from less familiar perspectives: the emotional and embodied, empire and the establishment, and the impact on democratic potentialities. Set against the authors' ongoing participation in extensive public protests against the UK's decision to replace Trident in 2016, A Nuclear Refrain disrupts familiar academic and policy forms of writing. It is "an uncomfortable hybrid between academia and fiction," intent on discomfiting the reader to spur the radical reimagining of a world profoundly shaped by the threat of nuclear weapons. Inspired by author and social critic Charles Dickens, this book draws on the form of A Christmas Carol. Transported by "ghosts" of the nuclear past, present and future, a pro-Trident British policy maker, the Right Honourable Roger C. Bezeeneos, has his perceptions sorely challenged. But will Roger allow his feelings to influence his decision-making? Will he recognize the yearning for empire-lost that mobilizes the British establishment? And will he admit the limiting of political participation that a commitment to nuclear deterrence determines? It's your call, Roger."

Chasing the dragon : assessing China's system of export controls for WMD-related goods and technologies
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ISBN: 0833038052 0833040855 9780833040855 9780833038050 9780833040824 0833040820 Year: 2005 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp.,

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A monograph examining the structure and operation of the Chinese government's controls on exports of items used to produce weapons of mass destruction. The author identifies the key organizations involved in export control decision making, laws and regulations, and interactions among government organizations involved in vetting sensitive exports.


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Tempting Fate : Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents
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ISBN: 1501740393 1501740385 Year: 2019 Publisher: Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press,


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The Fragile Balance of Terror : Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
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ISBN: 9781501767036 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world—a volatile mix of variables.The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger.The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again.Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegart

Individual preparedness and response to chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological terrorist attacks
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ISBN: 1282451383 9786612451386 0833036084 0833034731 9780833036087 9781282451384 9780833034731 Year: 2003 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand,

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Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation?s strategy for homeland security. This report provides a rigorous way to identify actions individuals can take to protect their health and safety. The authors detail a prospective individual?s strategy across four types of terrorist attacks-chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological-consisting of overarching goals and simple responses and preparations. The actions are designed to be sensitive to potential variations and defined in terms of simple rules that should be easy for individuals to adopt.

Die dritte Atommacht : Britische Nichtverbreitungspolitik im Dienst von Statussicherung und Deutschlandpolitik 1952-1968
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ISBN: 348664579X 3486702971 Year: 1999 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Der Besitz von Kernwaffen hatte für Großbritannien nicht nur militärische Bedeutung, sondern diente darüber hinaus der Erhaltung des Großmachtstatus. Dieses Interesse war auch die treibende Kraft der britischen Nichtverbreitungspolitik, die zu einem zentralen Aspekt der Außenpolitik wurde und in den Beziehungen zu den USA, zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Frankreich eine entscheidende Rolle spielte. Während die Briten von den USA als Lieferanten moderner Kernwaffentechnologie abhängig waren, drängten sie die Bundesrepublik zum Verzicht auf Nuklearwaffen. Dem ehemaligen Kriegsgegner Deutschland, obwohl inzwischen zum Verbündeten geworden, wollte man weiterhin nur einen niedrigeren Rang in der internationalen Szenerie gewähren. Aus diesen grundsätzlichen Zielen ergaben sich die britische Position in den Teststopp-Verhandlungen, die Ablehnung von Plänen zur Gründung einer multilateralen NATO-Atomstreitmacht (MLF) und die Haltung Londons in den Verhandlungen über einen Nichtverbreitungsvertrag.


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International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events : Towards an All-Hazards Approach
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ISBN: 900450799X 9789004507999 9789004507982 9004507981 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV,

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"The volume investigates to what extent the international and European Union legal frameworks applicable to Chemical, Biological and Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) events are adequate to face current challenges. It is innovative in many aspects: it adopts an all-hazard approach to CBRN risks, focusing on events of intentional, accidental and natural origin; it explores international obligations according to the four phases of the emergency cycle, including prevention, preparedness, response and recovery; and it covers horizontal issues such as protection of human rights, international environmental law, new technologies, the role of private actors, as well as enforcement mechanisms and remedies available to victims. The book thus offers a new way of looking at the applicable rules of international law in this field"--

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