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Preventing catastrophe : the use and misuse of intelligence in efforts to halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction / Thomas Graham Jr., Keith A. Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Thomas, Jr., 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- Weapons of mass destruction--Government policy--United States.
- Weapons of mass destruction.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--Government policy--United States.
- Nuclear nonproliferation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explains the challenge of monitoring small clandestine WMD programs, how the effort to monitor and prevent terrorist acquisition and use of WMD differs from monitoring and preventing the acquisition and use of WMD by nation states, and puts the Iraqi WMD issue in proper perspective.
- Contents:
- Motivations of countries and terrorists to acquire WMD
- Detecting and monitoring clandestine WMD programs
- The track record against clandestine proliferation
- Intelligence community
- policymaker relations : playing as a team?
- Intelligence on Iraqi WMD programs & policy reactions
- National and international efforts to thwart proliferation
- Conclusion : is it possible to prevent future proliferation?
- Postscript : what if we fail to prevent further proliferation?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-292) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804772051
- 0804772053
- OCLC:
- 589158796
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