A perpetual menace :

Walker, William, 1946-

A perpetual menace : nuclear weapons and international order / Nuclear weapons and international order. William Walker. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. - xv, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge global security studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the problems of nuclear order and their understanding -- The awakenings, 1939-46 -- Sculpting an order out of disorder: nuclear weapons and the Cold War -- Two crises of nuclear order, 1973-86 -- The international nuclear order's consolidation, 1986-97 -- Into a second nuclear age? Shifting and expanding problems of nuclear order, 1997-2007 -- Back to nuclear disarmament, arms control and the NPT's invigoration -- Heading for the rocks?

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Nuclear arms control.
Nuclear weapons--Government policy.
Security, International.
World politics--21st century.

JZ5665 / .W35 2012