Nuclear disarmament : obstacles to banishing the bomb / edited by Jozef Goldblat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldblat, Jozef.

Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.

Series:

Human security and global governance ; 3.

Human security and global governance ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear disarmament.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 269 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris Publishers ; [Tokyo, Japan] : in association with the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research ; New York, NY : In the U.S. and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

Under the direction of Jozef Goldblat, the distinguished arms control specialist, 17 renowned security scholars bring their collected knowledge and experience together in this volume to chart a course for nuclear disarmament. They define the imperative for nuclear disarmament and the arms control prerequisites to bring about such disarmament.

Contents:

Part 1 The Imperative of Nuclear Disarmament

1. Toward a Nuclear Weapon-free World as a Prelude to a War-free World / Joseph Rotblat 3

2. The Process of Nuclear Disarmament / Sverre Lodgaard 17

3. Ban on Use: An Essential Condition for Nuclear Disarmament / Jozef Goldblat 29

Part 2 Arms Control Prerequisites for Nuclear Disarmament

4. Convincing the Nuclear-weapon states to Disarm: The Problem of Conventional Forces / Jonathan Dean 41

5. The Elimination of Chemical and Biological Weapons / Graham S. Pearson 53

6. Possible Responses to Chemical and Biological Weapon Attacks / Lawrence Scheinman 71

7. Transparency in Armaments and Other Confidence-building Measures / Herbert Wulf 85

Part 3 Conditions for Regional Denuclearization

8. Conditions in the Middle East / Yair Evron 99

9. Conditions in the Persian Gulf / Shahram Chubin 113

10. Conditions in South Asia

as Viewed by an Indian / Jasjit Singh 125

11. Conditions in South Asia

as Viewed by a Pakistani / Malik Azhar Ellahi 141

12. Conditions in Northeast Asia / Toshiyuki Toyoda 151

13. Conditions in a Divided Country: The Case of Korea / Hiroharu Seki 161

Part 4 Political, Technological, and Economic Requirements for Nuclear Disarmament

14. NATO-Russia Relations in a Post-Cold War Eurasia / Alexander Nikitin 171

15. The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Nuclear Disarmament / David Krieger 185

16. Conversion of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Potential Economic and Social Fallout / Joseph Di Chiaro III 195

17. Domestic Dimensions of Disarmament: The Case of China / Yitzhak Shichor 217

18. Multilateral Fora as an Institutional Link Between Nuclear and Non-nuclear Disarmament / Vladimir Petrovsky 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.

ISBN:

1860645763

OCLC:

45406935