Strategic nuclear sharing / Julian Schofield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schofield, Julian.

Series:

Global issues series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Global issues series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--International cooperation.

Nuclear weapons.

International relations.

Military history, Modern--20th century.

Military history, Modern.

Physical Description:

ix, 208 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Most nuclear proliferation literature is focused on states seeking nuclear weapons, conducted in most cases clandestinely. The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics. This book proposes to answer why, if nuclear weapons are such good preservers of peace, are states not more willing to see them proliferate? Schofield also examines the underlying phenomenon of the threat of proliferation races, and how nonproliferation bargains between adversaries make nuclear sharing far less common. But sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War, including the cases of France-Israel, US-NATO, Russia-China, Israel-South Africa, China-Pakistan and Pakistan-Iran, as well as the incidence of soft balancing and permissive nuclear sharing in the cases of the US and Japan, Israel and India. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Nuclear Sharing and Why More May Be Better 1

2 Theories of Nuclear Non-Sharing 7

3 The Theory of Nuclear Sharing 15

4 Nuclear Proliferation Races and Nonproliferation Bargains 29

5 Wartime Cooperation: The Early Cases of Nuclear Sharing 44

6 The Nature of Off-the-Shelf Requests 48

7 French Nuclear Assistance to Israel 50

8 The USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact and Cuba 59

9 Sharing Within the Western Alliance 67

10 Israel and South Africa - Nuclear Collaboration 86

11 Chinese Nuclear Assistance to Pakistan and North Korea 93

12 Nuclear Sharing and Pakistan, North Korea and Iran 101

13 Soft Nuclear Sharing 109

14 Conclusion: Findings 120.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [132]-204) and index.

ISBN:

1137298448

9781137298447

OCLC:

860943841