دانلود کتاب The politics of nuclear weapons

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Praise for the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Contents List of Tables 1: Introduction: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons General Introduction Central Aims and Pedagogical Features Outline of the Book 2: What Are Nuclear Weapons and Why Are They So Powerful? Nuclear Science: Uranium, Plutonium and Nuclear Fission The Genesis of the Bomb: From the Manhattan Project to the Trinity Test Fat Man and Little Boy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atom Bombs and Hydrogen Bombs: Assessing Destructive Capacity 3: Testing, Authorising and Delivering Nuclear Weapons Atomic Testing Radiation, Fallout and Contamination Defining and Delivering Nuclear Weapons Current Nuclear Forces and the Nuclear Firing Chain 4: Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Ages Choosing to Build or nor to Build the Bomb Vertical and Horizontal Proliferation The Concept of Nuclear Ages The Nuclear Proliferation Debate: Optimists and Pessimists Nuclear Latency and Virtual Nuclear Arsenals 5: The Nuclear Revolution, Nuclear Strategy and Nuclear War The Nuclear Revolution, Nuclear Deterrence and the Security Dilemma Mutual Assured Destruction and Strategic Stability Nuclear Posture and Nuclear Targeting Nuclear Command and Control Escalation, Brinkmanship, Near Misses and Nuclear War 6: Vertical Proliferation Challenges The Legal Commitment to Disarmament The United States and Nuclear Primacy Russia and Great Power Status The United Kingdom, Trident and the Letter of Last Resort France and the Force de Dissuasion China and Minimum Deterrence 7: Horizontal Proliferation Challenges: The Nuclear Outliers Israel and Nuclear Opacity India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Challenge in South Asia Managing a Nuclear-Armed North Korea Future Trajectories in the Iranian Nuclear Standoff 8: Managing Nuclear Threats: Structures of Global Nuclear Governance Preventing: The International Non-Proliferation Regime Compelling: Sanctions, Coercion and the Use of Force Limiting: Negotiating Nuclear Arms Control Defending: Active and Passive Defences Assuring: Extended Nuclear Deterrence 9: Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors Illicit Nuclear Trade and the A. Q. Khan Nuclear Network What is Nuclear Terrorism? How Might Terrorists Get a Nuclear Device or Cause a Nuclear/Radiological Disaster? Securing Against Non-State Actor Nuclear Threats 10: Nuclear Disarmament The Nuclear Disarmament Movement Legal, Critical and Feminist Approaches to Nuclear Disarmament States That Have Given up the Bomb The Spread of Nuclear Weapon Free-Zones (NWFZ) The Global Zero Agenda and the Nuclear Ban Treaty 11: Future Nuclear Challenges The Demand for Nuclear Energy and the Spread of Civilian Nuclear Power Maintaining the Nuclear Taboo and the Norm of Non-Nuclear Use Emerging, Disruptive Technology and Strategic Non-Nuclear Weapons 12: Conclusion: Surviving our Nuclear Future Appendices Appendix A: Nuclear Weapons Timeline Appendix B: Glossary of Terms and Acronyms Appendix C: List of States with Civilian Nuclear Power Capability1 Appendix D: Nuclear Weapons in Fiction, Films and T.V. Fiction Non-Fiction Appendix E: Nuclear Weapons in Numbers Select Bibliography Index