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050 00 $aJZ5687$b.N837 2013
086 0 $aD 101.146:N 88/9
245 00 $aNuclear weapons security crises :$bwhat does history teach? /$cHenry D. Sokolski, Bruno Tertrais, editors.
264 1 $aCarlisle, PA :$bStrategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press,$c2013.
300 $ax, 283 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"July 2013."
500 $aFormat not distributed to depository libraries.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aThe unexpected risk : the impact of political crises on the security and control of nuclear weapons / Bruno Tertrais -- Case studies. A "nuclear coup"? France, the Algerian War, and the April 1961 nuclear test / Bruno Tertrais -- Securing nuclear arsenals : a Chinese case study / Mark A. Stokes -- Controlling Soviet/Russian nuclear weapons in times of instability / Nikolai Sokov -- Political transitions and nuclear management in Pakistan / Feroz Hassan Khan -- Lessons learned. The conundrum of close calls : lessons learned for securing nuclear weapons / Reid B.C. Pauly and Scott D. Sagan -- Nuclear command and control in crisis : old lessons from new history / Peter D. Feaver -- Securing nuclear arsenals in times of political turmoil : "top 10" lessons learned / Gregory F. Giles -- Beyond crises : the unending challenge of controlling nuclear weapons and materials / Matthew Bunn.
520 $aAt 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.
650 0 $aNuclear arms control$vCase studies.
650 0 $aNuclear crisis control$vCase studies.
650 0 $aNuclear weapons$xManagement$vCase studies.
700 1 $aSokolski, Henry D.,$eeditor.
700 1 $aTertrais, Bruno,$eeditor.
710 2 $aArmy War College (U.S.).$bStrategic Studies Institute,$eissuing body.
710 2 $aArmy War College (U.S.).$bPress,$epublisher.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tNuclear weapons security crises$w(OCoLC)854752566