Regime type, nuclear reversals, and nuclear strategy: The ambiguous case of Iran

Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age: Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon

Volumn 9781589019294, Issue , 2012, Pages 201-224

  Jones, Scott A ^a   Holmes, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b US NAVAL WAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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