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Security with Nuclear Weapons?
Different Perspectives on National Security
Inbunden, 1991
1718 kr
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SIPRIStockholm International Peace Research Institute is an independent institute for scientific research, which aims to further an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts and for a stable peace. Over the past twenty years, SIPRI has concentrated on …
Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996
World Inventories, Capabilities and Policies
Av David Albright, Frans Berkhout m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
3062 kr
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Plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) are the basic materials used in nuclear weapons. Plutonium also plays an important part in the generation of nuclear electricity. Knowing how much plutonium and HEU exist, where and in which form is vital for international security and nuclear …
Satellites for Arms Control and Crisis Monitoring
Av Bhupendra Jasani, Toshibomi Sakata
Inbunden, 1987
1034 kr
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The use of reconnaissance satellites to verify arms control agreements and monitor crises has been suggested to the UN, but opposed by the super-powers. This volume examines some of the problems.
Space Weapons and International Security
Inbunden, 1987
1682 kr
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The efforts of the United States to develop defences against ballistic missiles (the Strategic Defense Initiative) is one of the most hotly debated topics of our time. This authoritative book contributes to the debate by presenting th searching and wide-ranging views of twenty-six international …
Global Resources and International Conflict
Environmental Factors in Strategic Policy and Action
Inbunden, 1986
908 kr
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This book results from a research programme jointly financed by SIPRI and the United Nations Environment Programme, and examines the way in which certain resource limitations, such as water, oil, fisheries, can lead to conflict.
Arms and Disarmament: SIPRI Findings
Av Stockholm International Peace Research, Marek Thee
Häftad, 1987
1096 kr
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Since World War II, technological arms competition has increasingly militarized international political relations. The reversal of this by arms control and disarmament agreements is largely dependent on the provision of well researched information about what is happening the world military sector …
The Uncertain Course
New Weapons, Strategies and Mind-Sets
Inbunden, 1987
2894 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the strategicm military and technological forces which are changing the nature and likelihood of war. As the world enters the post-nuclear, or 'second' nuclear age, it has to take account of this revolution in military affairs which is as …
Arms Transfers to the Third World, 1971-85
Av Michael Brzoska, Thomas Ohlson
Inbunden, 1987
1536 kr
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The value of major conventional weapons imported by Third World countries between 1971 and 1985 was quadruple that for the previous two decades. This spectacular increase reflects changes in the economic and technological relations between industrialized nations and the Third World, as well as …
The Soviet Defence Enigma
Estimating Costs and Burden
Inbunden, 1987
1233 kr
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Realistic appraisal of Soviet defence efforts is crucial to strategic planning and foreign policy analysis. Since Soviet defence expenditure figures are incomplete, however, our knowledge in this area is extremely limited. This study reviews the state of current knowledge in this field, and …
Nuclear Weapon Tests
Prohibition or Limitation?
Av GOLDBLAT, Jozef Goldblat m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
2902 kr
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Nuclear explosions are the most visible manifestation of the arms race, and the conclusion of a multilateral treaty that will meaningfully restrict nuclear testing has for three decades been a priority. While some see testing as essential for the development of nuclear weapons and for upholding …
Arms Transfer Limitations and Third World Security
Inbunden, 1988
1611 kr
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Is the arms trade totally uncontrolled? What are the main obstacles to limitations on arms transfers? What can be learned from past attempts at arms transfer control? This book, which completes SIPRI's trilogy on the facts and implications of Third World build-up of major conventional weapons, …
Cultural Norms, War and the Environment
Inbunden, 1988
2490 kr
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The most immediate threats to humankind are military devastation and environmental exhaustion, both on a global scale. SIPRI, in co-operation with the United Nations Environment Programme, presents with this book the fifth major study in a series that examines linkages between these two threats. In …
Success and Failure in Arms Control Negotiations
Av April Carter
Inbunden, 1989
1576 kr
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Governments have been negotiating about disarmament, or more limited forms of arms control, for forty years. Despite these negotiations, weapons of increasing deadliness and sophistication continue to be developed. Through the use of case studies of particular negotiations (Partial and …
Security at Sea
Naval Forces and Arms Control
Inbunden, 1990
1233 kr
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Since the Second World War five navies are known to have acquired nuclear weapons, and naval forces and activities around the world have become increasingly important and dangerous. However, there has been no serious consideration of naval arms control for more than forty years. SIPRI gathered …
Bases Abroad
The Global Foreign Military Presence
Inbunden, 1989
3727 kr
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In this book Robert E. Harkavy analyses the modern status and the associated diplomacy of basing access, against the background of past political, military, and technological relationships. He provides a comprehensive description of the major powers' global basing networks, including their types, …
United States Military Forces and Installations in Europe
Av Simon Duke
Inbunden, 1989
2467 kr
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For many people who live in Europe, the presence of substantial US military forces is a matter of concern and debate, which has tended so far to centre around a few highly-visible bases, such as the cruise missile locations. Apart from these few bases, relatively little is known about the size and …
Security Without Nuclear Weapons?
Different Perspectives on Non-Nuclear Security
Inbunden, 1992
2395 kr
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This book examines the question: is the elimination of nuclear weapons feasible? Individual chapters address the major conceptual, technical, and economic issues in the design of a non-nuclear security regime. Other chapters explore more specialized issues as they relate to the feasibility of the …
Germany and Europe in Transition
Av Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Walther Stützle
Inbunden, 1991
473 kr
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The subject of this book is Europe after the cold war. The European security landscape has changed considerably. The period from November 1989 to November 1990 can be compared with such decisive dates in twentieth-century European history as 1918 and 1945. Germany and Europe have entered a crucial …
Restructuring of Arms Production in Western Europe
Av Michael Brzoska, Peter Lock
Inbunden, 1992
895 kr
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Profound changes are occurring in the structure of arms production in Western Europe. In this book, experts describe how the framework for producing arms in Western Europe is altered, and how various actors–firms, governments, unions–are adapting to the new situation. The book presents detailed …
Conventional Arms Control
Perspectives on Verification
Av Sergey Koulik, Richard Kokoski
Inbunden, 1995
1360 kr
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Conventional Arms Control provides an analysis of the political and operational problems of verification of conventional arms control in Europe. It examines aspects of the verification of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) and includes assessments of the different negotiating …
Europe and Naval Arms Control in the Gorbachev Era
Av Andreas Fürst, Volker Heise m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
3737 kr
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Although for a long time naval arms control was the forgotten dimension of arms control, it has become increasingly prominent in recent years. However, it is usually studied from the perspective of Soviet-American relations. This book examines the subject from a European perspective. What role …
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Global Order
Av Harald Müller, David Fischer m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
3223 kr
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This book presents different views on nuclear disarmament and arms control and a brief history of nuclear non-proliferation policy and the nuclear test ban issue. It describes the preparations for and results of the 1990 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and the 1991 Partial Test Ban …
Arms Export Regulations
Av Ian Anthony
Inbunden, 1991
1298 kr
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Governments have a legal obligation to ensure effective control over arms exports and to monitor and supervise the movement of arms to ensure that they do not fall into unauthorized hands. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed picture of how governments discharge this responsibility. …
The Limited Partnership
Building a Russian-US Security Community
Av James E. Goodby, Benoit Morel
Inbunden, 1993
1148 kr
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This book presents a detailed assessment of the conditions for security relations between Washington and Moscow in the post-cold war era, focusing on the scope for future co-operative management of common security. Three main areas provide the context for a thematically and theoretically varied …
Arms Industry Limited
Av Herbert Wulf
Inbunden, 1993
1148 kr
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Arms Industry Limited is an empirical account of the size and structure of the world arms industry with special case studies of the United States, the former Soviet Union, Canada, countries in both Western and Central Europe, and countries in the less developed world and in the Asia-Pacific …
India's ad hoc Arsenal
Direction or Drift in Defence Policy?
Av Chris Smith
Inbunden, 1994
2328 kr
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Chris Smith explores the evolution of Indian defence policy since 1947. He looks carefully at the domestic dynamics of Indian defence policy. This includes an in-depth analysis of the period 1947-62, which is often ignored by Indian defence analysts, and the performance of the defence industrial …
Central and Eastern Europe
The Challenge of Transition
Inbunden, 1994
577 kr
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Central and Eastern Europe focuses on the challenges and dilemmas posed to stability in the former USSR, and Central and Eastern Europe by the radical changes brought about by the collapse of Communist rule. Recognizing the need to adopt an approach that does justice to what is unquestionably a …
Technology and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Inbunden, 1996
5606 kr
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The author focuses on the critical developments, technological in particular, which are currently posing a threat to the nuclear non-proliferation regime. Crucial technologies affecting nuclear weapon proliferation and their potential ramifications for the nuclear non-proliferation regimes as a …
Regional Conflicts
The Challenge to US-Russian Co-operation
Inbunden, 1995
1469 kr
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This is the second volume of a two-part study on international issues in the post cold-war era. Ten authors consider regional conflicts, how relations among the great powers could be affected by such conflicts and how co-operation among the leading nations, especially Russia and the United States, …
Ballistic Missile Proliferation
The Politics and Technics
Av Aaron Karp
Inbunden, 1996
2411 kr
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The current concern that ballistic missile technologies are spreading throughout the world is addressed in this book.It examines the missile and missile-armament programmes and technologies, and the ability of countries to acquire such technologies. The concluding chapter investigates the …
