Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century: The New Disorder

by Stephen J. Cimbala

Book Overview

This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.

Nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age, on account of their capability for destruction, the fear that this created among politicians and publics, and the domination of the nuclear world order by two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. The end of the Cold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415622247
• ISBN13: 9780415622240
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"