The Strategic Causes of Proliferation
by
Alexandre Debs, Nuno P. Monteiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
When do states acquire nuclear weapons? Overturning a decade of scholarship focusing on other factors, Debs and Monteiro show in Nuclear Politics that proliferation is driven by security concerns. Proliferation occurs only when a state has both the willingness and opportunity to build the bomb. A...