Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy; Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material

Allison, Graham T., and Cote, Owen R., Jr., and Falkenrath, Richard A., and Miller, Steven E.

ISBN 10: 026251088X / ISBN 13: 9780262510882

Editore: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996

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viii, [2], 295, [7] pages. Footnotes. Map. Tables. Figures. This is Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA) Studies in International Security No. 12. Organizational stamp and ink notation at bottom of title page. The fate of the nuclear arsenal left behind by the Soviet Union has been a central research focus at the CSIA since 1991. As the Soviet Union began to slide toward dissolution at the waning months of 1991, CSIA undertook a comprehensive analysis of the nuclear challenges that would attend the collapse of the Soviet state. The present volume addresses the largest remaining challenge associated with the Soviet nuclear legacy: the security of the nuclear weapons and nuclear materials now largely consolidated within Russia. Graham T. Allison was the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans in the Clinton Administration. Owen Cote was the Assistant Director of CSIA. Richard Falkenrath was the Executive Director of CSIA. Steven Miller had been associated with CSIA in many capacities. He was also the Editor in Chief of the journal International Security.

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• Titolo: Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy; Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material
• Editore: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 026251088X
• ISBN 13: 9780262510882
• Rilegatura: Trade paperback
• Edizione: Second Printing [stated].
• Condizione: Very good

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"I cannot think of a more important book . . . The time to read it is now." -- A.M. Rosenthal, The New York Times "Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy grapples with one of the most immediate and most pressing threats to U.S. security interests today: the risk of rampant nuclear proliferation fueled by 'nuclear leakage' from the former Soviet Union. There has never been a more important time for this analysis by some of our nation's leading national security specialists. This book deserves to be widely read and carefully considered." - Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat, Georgia "Expected to have a profound impact on the nuclear debate in Washington. . . the most extensive assessment yet of the nuclear dangers in the post-cold war world." - Financial Times "Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy. . . makes a fundamental contribution to understanding and addressing the problems that have come from the break-up of the Soviet nuclear arsenal." - Rose Gottemoller, Deputy Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London What if the bomb that exploded in Oklahoma City or New York's World Trade Center had used 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium? The destruction would have been far more vast. This danger is not so remote: the recipe for making such a bomb is simple, and soon the ingredients might be easily attained. Thousands of nuclear weapons and hundreds of tons of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium from the weapons complex of the former Soviet Union, poorly guarded and poorly accounted for, could soon leak on to a vast emerging nuclear black market. This study by Graham Allison and three colleagues at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs warns that containing the leakage of nuclear materials--and keeping them out of the hands of groups hostile to the United States--is our nation's highest security priority. As the most open society on a shrinking planet, the United States has no reliable defense against smuggled weap

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Graham T. Allison is Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Owen R. Coté, Jr. is Assistant Director of CSIA's International Security Program. Richard A. Falkenrath is a Research Fellow. Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Security.