Nuclear Proliferation: New Technologies, Weapons, Treaties
Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Moscow Center, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Apparently print run was limited to 1000 copies per last page. Hardcover. 222, [2] pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. Decorative cover. No dust jacket present. Fep scuffed. Rose Gottemoeller was among the contributors. Dr. Alexei Georgievich Arbatov, Ph.D. (born January 17, 1951) is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Head of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), and a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is a Russian political scientist, academic, author, and former politician. Arbatov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), and completed graduate and post-graduate studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) and MGIMO. He has spent nearly 40 years in the academic and scientific communities, and also served for over a decade in Russia's parliament. He is one of Russia's foremost experts in the fields of international relations, foreign and military policy, international security, and arms control and disarmament. Major General Dvorkin (retired) is a chief researcher at the Center for International Security at the Institute of Primakov National Research Institute. Dvorkin previously served as the director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Fourth Central Research Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in technical sciences. Dvorkin was one of the main authors of program documents on Russia’s strategic nuclear forces and strategic missile forces. He was involved in preparing the SALT II, INF, START I, and START II treaties; he helped shape the Soviet Union’s/Russia’s positions at strategic arms control talks. Nuclear Proliferation: New Technologies, Weapons, Treaties, edited by Alexei Arbatov, a member of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Research Council and chairman of its Nonproliferation program, and Vladimir Dvorkin, a leading researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of World Economy and International Relations, looks at the complex and contradictory problems and prospects for global nuclear energy, the development and spread of nuclear technology, missiles, and missile technology, and issues related to non-strategic nuclear weapons, scientific and technical breakthroughs in the field of high-precision conventional weapons, missile defense, and the use of outer space for military purposes. The book’s aim is to broaden the analytical perspective on the military, political, and legal issues that exert an increasing influence on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and which must be taken into consideration in any effort to strengthen the nonproliferation regime. The first chapter analyzes projected expansion of nuclear energy in the world and its possible impact on the nonproliferation regime. Chapter Two examines nonproliferation problems arising from the fact that many countries have ambitious plans to develop the nuclear fuel cycle as part of the growing use of nuclear energy. Chapter Three studies the advantages and shortcomings of global cooperative projects to develop a new generation of nuclear energy technology. Chapter Four examines an issue closely related to the nuclear field, namely the spread of missiles and missile technology, extending the range of nuclear weapons while increasing the likelihood of a lethal strike, in a situation in which the balance of nuclear power and the corresponding threats in the world are increasingly multilateral. Chapter Five assesses the role of non-nuclear high-precision weapons in global and regional contexts and the possible consequences of their development as a means to combat nuclear proliferation and as an incentive for threshold countries to create nuclear weapons. Chapter Six gives a detailed study of the issue of non-strategic nuclear weapons, and their role in military and political relations between the great powers and in the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Chapter Seven studies the relations between strategic offensive weapons and missile defense systems. Chapter Eight looks at the future of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty and the possibility that medium-range missiles could be deployed in response to missile proliferation and the construction of a missile defense system. Chapter Nine examines the militarization of outer space, the development of space-based weapons, their impact on nuclear proliferation, and the outlook for the international legal regime regulating the militarization of space. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Nuclear Energy, Proliferation, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, ElBaradei, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, Counterforce, Precision-Guided Munitions, Arms Control, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Space Weapons, Counter-Information Weapon, Military Space, Anti
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