On proliferation watch: Some reflections on the past quarter century

Nonproliferation Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 59-77

  Dunn, Lewis A ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 85008823499     PISSN: 10736700     EISSN: 17461766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10736709808436721     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Albert Wohlstcttcr, et al., Moving Toward Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd?, Report Prepared for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Pan-Heuristics, 1976.
2. Lewis A. Dunn and Herman Kahn, Trends in Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Report Prepared for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Hudson Institute, May 15, 1976.
3. Joseph Yager, ed., Nonproliferation and U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington, D. C.: The Brookings Institution, 1980).
4. For an official U.S. perspective, see Proliferation: Threat and Response (Washington, D. C.: Office of the Secretary of Defense, November 1997).
5. For an explicit focus on many potential proliferation chains, see Dunn and Kahn, Trends in Nuclear Non-Proliferation. On relationships among potential proliferators also see, c.g., William Epstein, “Why States Go—and Don’t Go—Nuclear” in Joseph Coffey, cd., Nuclear Proliferation: Prospects, Problems, and Proposals, in The Annals (Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1977), pp. 16-28.
6. Yager, Nonproliferation and U.S. Foreign Policy, and Leonard S. Spector, The Undeclared Bomb (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988).
7. Dunn and Kahn, Trends in Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Yager, Nonproliferation and U.S. Foreign Policy.
8. Robert M. Lawrence and Joel Larus, cds., Nuclear Proliferation: Phase 2 (Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1973).
9. William H. Ovcrholt, ed., Asia’s Nuclear Future (Boulder, Co.: Wcstview Press, 1977).
10. Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, have been in the forefront of this debate, with the former stressing the dangers of proliferation, the latter contending that the prospects arc good for the establishment of stable balances. See their book The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (New York: Norton, 1995).
11. On the author’s earlier views, sec Lewis A. Dunn, Controlling the Bomb (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).
12. Aaron Karp, Ballistic Missile Proliferation: The Politics and Technics (Oxford: Oxford University Press and SIPRI, 1996).
13. This debate is reflected in Atlantic Council’s Nuclear Fuels Policy Working Group, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Council, 1978).
14. For a good discussion of the situation today, sec David Albright, William Walker, and Frans Bcrkhout, Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities, and Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press and SIPRI, 1997), chapters 6 and 7.