Designing denuclearization
Subtitle: an interpretive encyclopedia
By: Bruce D. Larkin.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781412807623
Subjects: Nuclear disarmament -- Encyclopedias; Nuclear nonproliferation -- Encyclopedias; International organization -- Encyclopedias
Genres: Encyclopedias.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The transition problem; title: The concealed retained weapons problem; title: The concealed clandestine program problem; title: The problem posed by dissimilar non-nuclear; title: The problem of retained capacity for reconstitution; title: The problem of ongoing design; title: The problem of compensatory non-nuclear arming; title: The problem of joint simultaneous decision; title: The problem of regime enforcement; title: The problem that ZNW today would enhance the relative power of the conventionally powerful; title: The objection that conventional war will become more probable; title: The objection that nuclear devices serve missions other than nuclear deterrence; title: The objection that an advantage is being surrendered; title: The obstacle of patrio-opportunism; title: The obstacle of perceived interest; title: The objection that only self-reliance assures security under uncertainty; title: The objection that a nuclear abolition regime will prove unenforceable; title: The objection that nuclear weapons can be safely retained and prudently managed; title: The objection that ZNW is unrealistic; title: The Manhattan Project scientists and proposals for international control; title: The Acheson-Lilienthal report; title: The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission; title: The Eisenhower administration; title: The Kennedy administration : US, Russian, and Chinese proposals of 1961-1963; title: Zones; title: The Gorbachev initiative of 15 january 1986; title: Reykjavik; title: The Canberra Commission report (14 August 1996); title: Model nuclear weapons convention; title: The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), NPT review conferences, and the New Agenda Coalition landmark post-cold war declarations, commentaries, and advocacy initiatives; title: The WMD Commission (1 June 2006); title: Warhead and fissile material accounting; title: Verification; title: Whistle-blowing and "societal verification"; title: Systematic and open modeling; title: Simultaneous move to zero; title: Transparence; title: Review and dispute resolution procedures; title: Governmental and intergovernmental research units; title: Non-state research centers; title: Designing negotiability; title: Focused talks; title: Tests; title: "Collaborative governance" vs. "sovereign unilateralism"; title: Active reassurance; title: Conventional force limits; title: Collective security; title: Detargeting; title: Dealerting; title: HEU control and buydown; title: India and Pakistan : non-weaponization and non-deployment; title: "No first use" or "only for deterrence"?; title: Projects on denuclearization design; title: Empirical examples of denuclearization; title: Paths as I see them.