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The nuclear tipping point [electronic resource] : why states reconsider their nuclear choices / Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss, editors.

Contributor(s): Campbell, Kurt M, 1957- | Einhorn, Robert J | Reiss, Mitchell | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004Description: xii, 367 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Nuclear nonproliferation | National security | Security, InternationalGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 327.1/747 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The nuclear tipping point : prospects for a world of many nuclear weapons states / Mitchell B. Reiss -- Reconsidering a nuclear future : why countries might cross over to the other side / Kurt M. Campbell -- Will the abstainers reconsider? : focusing on individual cases / Robert J. Einhorn -- Egypt : frustrated but still on a non-nuclear course / Robert J. Einhorn -- Syria : can the myth be maintained without nukes? / Ellen Laipson -- Saudi Arabia : the calculations of uncertainty / Thomas W. Lippman -- Turkey : nuclear choices amongst dangerous neighbors / Leon Fuerth -- Germany : the model case, a historical imperative / Jenifer Mackby and Walter B. Slocombe -- Japan : thinking the unthinkable / Kurt M. Campbell and Tsuyoshi Sunohara -- South Korea : the tyranny of geography and the vexations of history / Jonathan D. Pollack and Mitchell B. Reiss -- Taiwan's Hsin Chu program : deterrence, abandonment, and honor / Derek J. Mitchell -- Avoiding the tipping point : concluding observations / Kurt M. Campbell and Robert J. Einhorn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nuclear tipping point : prospects for a world of many nuclear weapons states / Mitchell B. Reiss -- Reconsidering a nuclear future : why countries might cross over to the other side / Kurt M. Campbell -- Will the abstainers reconsider? : focusing on individual cases / Robert J. Einhorn -- Egypt : frustrated but still on a non-nuclear course / Robert J. Einhorn -- Syria : can the myth be maintained without nukes? / Ellen Laipson -- Saudi Arabia : the calculations of uncertainty / Thomas W. Lippman -- Turkey : nuclear choices amongst dangerous neighbors / Leon Fuerth -- Germany : the model case, a historical imperative / Jenifer Mackby and Walter B. Slocombe -- Japan : thinking the unthinkable / Kurt M. Campbell and Tsuyoshi Sunohara -- South Korea : the tyranny of geography and the vexations of history / Jonathan D. Pollack and Mitchell B. Reiss -- Taiwan's Hsin Chu program : deterrence, abandonment, and honor / Derek J. Mitchell -- Avoiding the tipping point : concluding observations / Kurt M. Campbell and Robert J. Einhorn.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.