Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
by Joseph Cirincione, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Miriam Rajkumar
Category: Political Science

An authoritative study of the dangers nations face today from weapons of mass destruction and the successes and failures of international nonproliferation efforts. This proliferation atlas documents with maps, charts, and graphs the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems. The book describes the weapons and the regimes that try to control them; it also details the countries that have, want, or have given up weapons of mass destruction.Deadly Arsenals provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment available on the subject and is a valuable resource for policymakers, scholars, students, and the media.Contents:Part 1: Assessments and WeaponsOverviewPart 2: Declared Nuclear-Weapon StatesRussia, China, France, United Kingdom, and the United StatesPart 3: Non-NPT Nuclear-Weapon StatesIndia, Pakistan, and IsraelPart 4: The Three Hard CasesNorth Korea, Iran, and IraqPart 5: States of Some ConcernAlgeria and LibyaPart 6: Countries that Have Given Up Nuclear Weapons ProgramsBelarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, and South AfricaJoseph Cirincione is senior associate and director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment. He is the editor of Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Carnegie Endowment, 2000). Jon B. Wolfsthal is associate in the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project. He is the coeditor of Nuclear Status Report: Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material, and Export Controls in the Former Soviet Union (Carnegie Endowment and Monterrey Institute, 2001). Miriam Rajkumar is project associate with the Carnegie Endowment's Non-Proliferation Project where she tracks proliferation and security developments in South Asia and the Middle