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Beyond 1995

The Future of the NPT Regime

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Joseph F. Pilat

    1. Center for National Security Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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  2. Robert E. Pendley

    1. Center for National Security Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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Part of the book series: Issues in International Security (IIS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Joseph F. Pilat, Robert E. Pendley
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Nonproliferation Treaty Regime

    • Mohamed I. Shaker
    Pages 7-15

  4. Avoiding the Worst of All Possible Worlds

    • Benjamin Sanders
    Pages 17-26

  5. The Collapse of the NPT— What if?

    • Lewis A. Dunn
    Pages 27-40

  6. What Happens to Safeguards if the NPT Goes?

    • David Fischer
    Pages 41-52

  7. Does the NPT Matter?

    • Lawrence Scheinman
    Pages 53-63

  8. Beyond the NPT

    • Richard Butler
    Pages 65-71

  9. Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

    • Antonio Carrea
    Pages 73-82

  10. Toward a Universal Framework of Nuclear Restraint

    • Munir Ahmad Khan
    Pages 83-91

  11. European and Global Security in a World without the NPT

    • Harald Müller
    Pages 93-105

  12. The NPT and Nuclear Proliferation in East Asia

    • Ryukichi Imai
    Pages 107-116

  13. World and Regional Power Relations without the NPT

    • Ashok Kapur
    Pages 117-131

  14. Should India Sign the NPT?

    • Raju G. C. Thomas
    Pages 133-150

  15. A World without the NPT?

    • Joseph F. Pilat
    Pages 151-163

  16. Conclusions

    • Joseph F. Pilat, Robert E. Pendley
    Pages 165-168

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 169-257
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About this book

There is almost universal support for the view that the world would be an even more dangerous place if there were to be more nuclear-weapon states. There would be more fingers on more triggers and, probably, a greater risk that a trigger might be pulled with incalculable consequences. It is easy to see, therefore, that there is a collective interest in avoiding the spread of nuclear weapons to further countries. Nations do not, however, normally undertake or refrain from actions because of such a collective interest; they do so because of their individual interests. This is especially true in the field of national security. A nation perceiving that it has a real interest in developing nuclear weapons is not very likely to refrain from doing so merely because it is told such development would be bad for the world community. If the global interest in avoiding the spread of nuclear weapons to more coun­ tries is to succeed, conditions that make it in the interest of each individual nation to renounce nuclear weapons need to be created or maintained. Fortunately, conditions have prevailed in which the vast majority of nations have seen an advantage in making legally binding nonproliferation commitments. An important rationale for many of these countries has been that these commitments would facilitate the transfer of desired civil nuclear technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for National Security Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    Joseph F. Pilat, Robert E. Pendley

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond 1995

  • Book Subtitle: The Future of the NPT Regime

  • Editors: Joseph F. Pilat, Robert E. Pendley

  • Series Title: Issues in International Security

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1315-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43291-0Due: 28 February 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-1317-5Published: 19 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-1315-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 276

  • Topics: Political Science, Business and Management, general

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