Book ID: CBB001213746

Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach? (2013)

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Sokolski, Henry D. (Editor)
Tertrais, Bruno (Editor)


CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: x + 283 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.
Language: English

At the height of the Cultural Revolution a Chinese long-range nuclear missile is fired within the country, and the nuclear warhead it is carrying detonates. A French nuclear device is exploded in Algeria during a coup there. The Soviet empire has collapsed, and shots are fired at a Russian crowd intent on rushing a nuclear weapons-laden plane straining to remove a stash of nuclear weapons to a safer locale. Pakistani civilian governments are routinely pushed aside by a powerful, nuclear-armed military that observers worry might yet itself fall prey to a faction willing to seize a portion of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. This volume reveals previously unknown details on each case and teases out what is to be learned. This book is ideal not only for policymakers and analysts, but for historians and teachers as well.

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Authors & Contributors
Siebeneichner, Tilmann
Liu, Jinyan
Melanie Brand
Edward Kaplan
Zhang, Baichun
Susan Colbourn
Concepts
Cold War
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Technology and politics
National security
Technology and war; technology and the military
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Soviet Union
United States
China
Pakistan
Arctic regions
Bangladesh
Institutions
United States National Security Council
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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