Walker, William,  1946- <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415421058 (hbk.) 0415421055 (hbk.) 9780415421065 (pbk.) 0415421063 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011018381 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nuclear arms control.<br/>Nuclear weapons--Government policy.<br/>Security, International.<br/>World politics--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JZ5665  / .W35 2012