Dismantling the Cold War
Subtitle: U.S. and NIS Perspectives on the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
Contributors: John M. Shields (Editor); William C. Potter (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 11, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780262691987
Subjects: Arms negotiation & control; International institutions; Political science & theory; Arms Control And Disarmament; Technology; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; USA; Americas (North Central South West Indies); International Relations - Arms Control; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Military Science; Former Soviet republics; Nuclear disarmament; Technical assistance, American; Weapons of mass destruction
First sentence: Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, little attention was given to the possibility that war, revolution, or a coup d'etat might suddenly lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.