Analysis of national strategies to counter a country's nuclear weapons program

Decision Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-45

  Caswell, David J ^a   Howard, Ronald A ^a   Paté Cornell, M Elisabeth ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adversary analysis; Decision analysis; Influence diagrams; National security; National strategy; Nuclear counter proliferation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952833476     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1110.0198     Document Type: Article

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