Exporting the bomb : technology transfer and the spread of nuclear weapons / Matthew Kroenig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kroenig, Matthew.

Series:

Cornell studies in security affairs.

Cornell studies in security affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Political aspects.

Nuclear weapons.

Arms transfers--Political aspects.

Arms transfers.

Technology transfer--Political aspects.

Technology transfer.

Military assistance--Political aspects.

Military assistance.

Nuclear nonproliferation--Political aspects.

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 1950's and 1960's; the Soviet Union's sensitive transfers to China from 1958 to 1960; China's nuclear aid to Pakistan in the 1980's; 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: The Problem of Nuclear Assistance

1. Explaining Nuclear Assistance

2. The Correlates of Nuclear Assistance

3. Israel's Nuclear Program: French Assistance and U.S. Resistance

4. Common Enemies, Growling Dogs, and A. Q. Khan's Pakistan: Nuclear Supply in Other Countries

5. Importing the Bomb: Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation

Conclusion: Preventing Nuclear Proliferation

Appendixes

A. Data Appendix for Chapter 2

B. Data Appendix for Chapter 5

C. Cases of Sensitive Nuclear Assistance

D. Selected Cases of Nonsensitive Nuclear Assistance

E. Selected Cases of Nonassistance

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801476402

0801476402

9780801457678

080145767X

9780801458910

0801458919

OCLC:

744545702