Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technology
- ISBN-10
- 0262731088
- ISBN-13
- 9780262731089
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 467
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Richard Wolfson
Description
background needed to make informed choices about nuclear technologies, introducing concepts that can be used for evaluating the claims of both proponents and opponents
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century: A Citizen's Guide
By Richard Wolfson, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress"Citizen's guide to making informed choices about nuclear technologies, energy, and weapons"--
-
The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices
By Mitchell B. Reiss, Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. EinhornThe nuclear pretensions of so-called rogue states and terrorist organizations are much discussed. But how firm is the resolve of those countries that historically have chosen to forswear nuclear weapons?
-
The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices
By Mitchell Reiss, Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. EinhornCase studies of eight long-term stalwarts of the nonproliferation regime--Egypt, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabai, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, and Turkey--flesh out this framework and show how even these countries might be pushed over the edge ...
-
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
By Vipin NarangExamining the reasoning and deterrence consequences of regional power nuclear strategies, this book demonstrates that these strategies matter greatly to international stability and it provides new insights into conflict dynamics across ...
-
Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms
By Bruce LarkinLarkin argues that if they chose the status quo, they elect a world in which only terror and self-restraint keep devastation at bay, a world in which instant destruction is possible.
-
Nuclear or Not?: Choices for Our Energy Future
By Gerald Foley, Ariane van BurenThe remainder to the text is devoted to the papers presented and discussions held during separate sessions on the energy problem, strategies for the future, alternative energy sources, the technological demands of nuclear power, the ...
-
Nuclear Arms Control Choices
By Harold BrownThis book focuses the public debate on fundamental political problem by defining three approaches to arms control.
-
Critical Masses and Critical Choices: Evolving Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, and Security
By Kerry G. Herron, Hank C. Jenkins-SmithCritical Masses and Critical Choices examines American attitudes on issues of national and international security. Based on over 13,000 in-depth interviews conducted over a ten-year period, Kerry Herron and Hank...
-
Iran’s Nuclear Future: Critical U.S. Policy Choices
By Alireza Nader, Jeffrey Martini, James T. QuinlivanAs Iran's nuclear program evolves, U.S. decisionmakers will confront a series of critical policy choices involving complex considerations and policy trade-offs.
-
In Defence Of New Zealand: Foreign Policy Choices In The Nuclear Age
By Ramesh Chandra Thakur, Ramesh ThakurEn nyzealandsk vurdering af landets sikkerheds- og udenrigspolitik og mulighederne i fremtiden. Ordlyd af ANZUS- traktaten gengives.