TY  - GEN
T1  - Exporting the bomb : technology transfer and the spread of nuclear weapons
T2  - Cornell studies in security affairs.
A1  - Kroenig, Matthew
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn744545702
AB  - In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries help others to develop nuclear weapons? Many analysts assume that nuclear transfers are driven by economic considerations. States in dire economic need, they suggest, export sensitive nuclear materials and technology-and ignore the security risk-in a desperate search for hard currency. Kroenig challenges this conventional wisdom. He finds that state decisions to provide sensitive nuclear assistance are the result of a coherent, strategic logic. The spread of nuclear weapons threatens powerful states more than it threatens weak states, and these differential effects of nuclear proliferation encourage countries to provide sensitive nuclear assistance under certain strategic conditions. Countries are more likely to export sensitive nuclear materials and technology when it would have the effect of constraining an enemy and less likely to do so when it would threaten themselves. In Exporting the Bomb, Kroenig examines the most important historical cases, including France's nuclear assistance to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s; the Soviet Union's sensitive transfers to China from 1958 to 1960; China's nuclear aid to Pakistan in the 1980s; and Pakistan's recent technology transfers, with the help of "rogue" scientist A.Q. Khan, from 1987 to 2002. Understanding why states provide sensitive nuclear assistance not only adds to our knowledge of international politics but also aids in international efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons
OP  - 233
CN  - JZ5665 .K76 2010eb
SN  - 0801458919
SN  - 9780801458910
SN  - 0801448573
SN  - 9780801448577
SN  - 0801476402
SN  - 9780801476402
KW  - Nuclear weapons : Political aspects.
KW  - Arms transfers : Political aspects.
KW  - Technology transfer : Political aspects.
KW  - Military assistance : Political aspects.
KW  - Nuclear nonproliferation : Political aspects.
KW  - Security, International.
KW  - Armes nucléaires : Aspect politique.
KW  - Armes : Vente : Aspect politique.
KW  - Transfert de technologie : Aspect politique.
KW  - Assistance militaire : Aspect politique.
KW  - Non-prolifération nucléaire : Aspect politique.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : Arms Control.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : International.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : General.
KW  - Arms transfers : Political aspects
KW  - Nuclear weapons : Political aspects
KW  - Security, International
KW  - Technology transfer : Political aspects
ER  -