Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach? (Enlarged Edition)

At the height of the Cultural Revolution a Chinese long-range nuclear missile is fired within the country, and the nuclear warhead it is carrying detonates. A French nuclear device is exploded in Algeria during a coup there. The Soviet empire has collapsed, and shots are fired at a Russian crowd intent on rushing a nuclear weapons-laden plane straining to remove a stash of nuclear weapons to a safer locale. Pakistani civilian governments are routinely pushed aside by a powerful, nuclear-armed military that observers worry might yet itself fall prey to a faction willing to seize a portion of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. This volume reveals previously unknown details on each case and teases out what is to be learned. This book is ideal not only for policymakers and analysts, but for historians and teachers as well.

• • Author: Henry D. Sokolski, Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College
• • Publisher: Lulu.Com
• • Publication Date: Feb 03, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 294 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1304868974
• • ISBN-13: 9781304868978