Responding to Proliferation Threats
Author | : Mitchel B. Wallerstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nuclear nonproliferation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mitchel B. Wallerstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nuclear nonproliferation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : U.S. Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Arms race |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense |
Publisher | : Office of Secretary of Defense |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mitchel B. Wallerstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nuclear nonproliferation |
ISBN | : |
Iraq's possession of biological and chemical weapons is indicative that proliferation presents not "theoretical" military problems but significant military threats today. Countries of moderate technical capability and economic means are readily able to develop biological weapons. The development of biological weapons can be masked by other weapons programs, as well as by dual-use technologies in legitimate biological/pesticide manufacturing and research facilities. Many states that possess biological or chemical weapons exist in unstable regions where the possibility of U.S. or coalition military involvement is greatest. Most proliferant states aspire to regional hegemony and perceive nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons as asymmetrical counters to the superior conventional forces of opponents. A key to deterring the use of biological or chemical weapons lies in developing counterproliferation capabilities (e.g., protective suits, masks, detectors, etc.) that negate the value of using such weapons against U.S. or coalition forces.
Author | : Brian K. Chappell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783030598020 |
Contemporary fears of rogue state nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism pose unique challenges for the global community. This book offers a unique approach by examining why states that have the military capability to severely damage a proliferating state's nuclear program instead choose to pursue coercive diplomacy. The author argues cognitive psychological influences, including the trauma derived from national tragedies like the September 11th attacks and the Holocaust, and a history of armed conflict increase the threat perceptions of foreign policy decision-makers when confronting a state perceived to be challenging the existing power structure by pursuing a nuclear weapon. The powerful state's degree of perceived threat, combined with its national security policies, military power projection capabilities, and public support then influence whether it will take no action, use coercive diplomacy/sanctions, or employ military force to address the weaker state's nuclear ambitions. Brian K. Chappell, PhD served twenty-eight years in the United States Air Force and is a veteran of the Afghanistan War. He is a career Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer and has served as a Middle East policy senior advisor to the Under Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Author | : James J. Wirtz |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804783721 |
In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to seek their own nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles. This likely would produce greater instability, more insecure states, and further proliferation. Are there steps concerned countries can take to anticipate, prevent, or dissuade the next generation of proliferators? Are there countries that might reassess their decision to forgo a nuclear arsenal? This volume brings together top international security experts to examine the issues affecting a dozen or so countries' nuclear weapons policies over the next decade. In Part I, National Decisions in Perspective, the work describes the domestic political consideration and international pressures that shape national nuclear policies of several key states. In Part II, Fostering Nonproliferation, the contributors discuss the factors that shape the future motivations and capabilities of various states to acquire nuclear weapons, and assess what the world community can do to counter this process. The future utility of bilateral and multilateral security assurances, treaty-based nonproliferation regimes, and other policy instruments are covered thoroughly.
Author | : William S. Cohen |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1428980857 |
Author | : Barry R. Schneider |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1999-02-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313028222 |
The United States faces a small number of rogue states that either have or are working to acquire weapons of mass destruction. These NASTIs, or NBC-Arming Sponsors of Terrorism and Intervention, include such states as North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Syria. U.S. nonproliferation programs and policies have helped to keep this number small, but U.S. and allied counterproliferation programs are essential to reduce the danger. It is up to deterrence, active defenses, passive defenses, decontamination, and counterforce to turn enemy weapons of mass destruction into instruments of limited destructive effect. Warfighters will also have to adopt a different strategy and concept of operations in fighting an adversary that is so heavily armed. This strategy will feature a combination of deception, dispersion, mobility and maneuver, diffused logistics, remote engagement, missile defense bubbles, non-combatant evacuation operations, and large area decontamination. It will also involve upgrades to NBC passive defense measures and equipment, as well as a counterforce capability that can find and destroy a variety of adversary targets, including mobile launchers and deeply buried and hardened underground structures.
Author | : Aspen Strategy Group (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Nuclear arms control |
ISBN | : 9780160485916 |