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Wapenwedloop in de jaren tachtig.
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ISBN: 9062875505 Year: 1985 Publisher: Amsterdam Raamgracht


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The gun in central Africa : a history of technology and politics
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ISBN: 9780821422120 9780821422113 0821422111 082142212X 9780821445556 0821445553 Year: 2016 Volume: *1 Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,

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Examining the history of warfare and political development through a technological lens, Macola relates the study of military technology to the history of gender.

Deterrence in the second nuclear age
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ISBN: 0813108950 0813119987 9780813148434 081314843X 9780813119984 9780813108957 Year: 1996 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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Keith Payne begins by asking, ""Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?"" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's view, is that such policies will almost assuredly fail in the Second Nuclear Age -- a period in which direct nuclear threat between superpowers has been replaced by threats posed by regional ""rogue"" powers newly armed with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.The fundamental problem with deterrence theory is th

The future of U.S. nuclear weapons policy
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ISBN: 0309063671 0309518377 0585002002 9780585002002 9780309063678 0305063671 0309174643 Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington, DC National Academy Press


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Nuclear deterrence in the 21st century : lessons from the Cold War for a new era of strategic piracy
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ISBN: 9780833059307 0833059300 0833059440 9780833059444 9780833059390 0833059394 9780833059437 0833059432 Year: 2012 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND,

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Deterrence remains a primary doctrine for dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. The author reviews the history of nuclear deterrence and calls for a renewed intellectual effort to address the relevance of concepts such as first strike, escalation, extended deterrence, and other Cold War-era strategies in today's complex world of additional superpowers, smaller nuclear powers, and nonstate actors.


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Coping with a nuclearizing Iran
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ISBN: 0833058657 9786613530721 1280126868 0833058673 9780833058676 9780833058652 Year: 2011 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation,

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Some time in the coming decade, Iran will probably acquire nuclear weapons or the capacity to quickly produce them. This monograph provides a midterm strategy for dealing with Iran that neither begins nor ends at the point at which Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon capability. It proposes an approach that neither acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran nor refuses to admit the possibility--indeed, the likelihood--of this occurring.

Russian strategic nuclear forces
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ISBN: 0262281708 0585437297 9780262281706 9780585437293 0262661810 9780262661812 0262162024 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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This encyclopedic book provides comprehensive data about Soviet and Russian strategic weapons, payloads, and delivery systems and on the nuclear complex that supports them. The data are drawn from open, primarily Russian sources. All the information is presented chronologically, arranged by individual systems and facilities, and is not available elsewhere in a single volume.Following an overview of the history of Soviet strategic forces, the book discusses the structure of the political and military leadership in the Soviet Union and Russia, the structure of the Russian military and military industry, nuclear planning procedures, and the structure of the command and control system. It describes the nuclear warhead production complex and the Soviet nuclear weapon development program. It then focuses on the individual services that constitute the so-called strategic triad--land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the strategic submarine fleet, and strategic aviation. It presents an overview of Soviet strategic defense, including air defense systems, the Moscow missile defense system, the radar and space-based early warning networks, and the space surveillance system. The book also includes a description of the Soviet nuclear testing program, including information on test sites and on all Soviet nuclear tests and peaceful nuclear explosions. It concludes with a look at the future of strategic nuclear weapons in Russia.

Nonproliferation primer
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ISBN: 0262272970 0585208069 9780585208060 026206183X 026256095X Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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This primer provides a complete yet concise overview of the technicalbackground needed to understand today's nonproliferation issues. It describes allthe existing types of weapons of mass destruction and examines the threats they poseand their implications for regional and international security.The authors identifycountries that have, or may have, programs to develop such weapons, describe thetechnology needed to continue such programs, and examine the extent to which theseprograms violate existing international agreements. They also outline existingunilateral and multilateral measures designed to curb proliferation and discuss newmeasures that could strengthen current nonproliferation efforts.


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Iran's nuclear future : critical U.S. policy choices
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ISBN: 9780833051752 083305175X 9786613135865 0833053086 1283135868 9780833053084 9781283135863 Year: 2011 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND,

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As Iran's nuclear program evolves, U.S. decision makers will confront a series of critical policy choices involving complex considerations and policy trade-offs. These policy choices could involve dissuading Iran from developing nuclear weapons; deterring Iran from using its nuclear weapons, if it were to acquire them; and reassuring U.S. regional partners. The U.S. Air Force will need to prepare to carry out whatever policies are chosen.


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The impact of global terrorism on economic and political development : Afro-Asian perspectives
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ISBN: 178769920X 9781787699205 1787699226 1787699218 1787699196 9781787699199 9781787699212 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing,

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Global economic and political systems have been facing serious threats from different terrorist groups for the last few decades, and the implications of these incidences are increasing rapidly. This edited collection seeks to address and analyse the ramifications of terrorism and terrorist activities on economic and political systems in terms of the decline in GDP levels, increase in unnecessary military expenditure at the cost of social and economic developments, disincentives to the foreign investors, loss of diplomatic powers at global levels, social unrest, and increase in youth unemployment, poverty, political violence, and more. Whilst the book considers the effects of terrorism at a world-level, there is a specific focus on the economies in the Afro-Asian regions. This unique coverage of studies in quantitative economics and political systems offers postgraduate students, researchers and academics in the fields of political economics, international relations, and defence studies, among others, the opportunity to expand their knowledge on the impact of terrorism.

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