The Global Nuclear Challenge: Facing the 21st Century

Up-dated and significantly expanded on the 2000 edition, Bluth provides a detailed analysis of the role of nuclear weapons in the international system of the 21st century, US-Russian strategic relations, arms control and co-operative threat reduction and considers the policies of other nuclear powers. Finally there is in-depth analysis of the problem of nuclear proliferation using country case studies to assess prospects for global cooperative threat reduction and denuclearization.