Really, there are only a handful of cities situated along the southern border, and for the most part this enormous territory is empty, while on the other side of the border China is bursting at the seams with people. Since both countries have nuclear weapons, any conflict would have to be resolved with conventional forces, and Russia would lose.
For the last several decades the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has been considered a major threat to international security. Both chemical and biological weapons are universally banned. Nuclear weapons, however, are regulated by a more complicated international regime. This essay begins with a general survey of the literature on nuclear proliferation. Specifically, in the first part the author addresses the question why countries seek to acquire nuclear weapons. To answer, the article examines five theoretical models: globalization and technological imperative; leadership/cognitive and psychological approaches; internal dynamics and domestic politics model; national pride and prestige; and security. The section that follows addresses the question of how countries are 'per...
Rumor has it that Leonardo DiCaprio plans to remake the 1983 blockbuster "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick hacked into the government's computer system and nearly triggered a thermonuclear Armageddon. Even though the Soviet Union is long gone, it's easy to see how the time is ripe for a remake. In fact, the world is now a much more dangerous place. In 1983, only a handful of countries had nuclear weapons. Today, the nuclear genie has long left the bottle. Countries like Pakistan, China and Russia have created a vibrant international market for nuclear and missile technologies, providing centrifuges, rockets and know-how to countries like Iran and North Korea.
To the Editor: On Sept. 24, 1996, after intense international negotiations, a verifiable global ban on nuclear test explosions - the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) - was presented for countries to sign. Because the CTBT clearly benefits U.S. national security by constraining other countries' nuclear weapons capabilities, the United States played a galvanizing role in test ban negotiations, and was the first in line to sign the treaty.
The basic bargain is sound: Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them. - Barack Obama in Prague
Rumor has it that Leonardo DiCaprio plans to remake the 1983 blockbuster "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick hacked into the government's computer system and nearly triggered a thermonuclear Armageddon. Even though the Soviet Union is long gone, it's easy to see how the time is ripe for a remake. The world is now a much more dangerous place. In 1983, only a handful of countries had nuclear weapons. Today, the nuclear genie has long left the bottle. Countries like Pakistan, China and Russia have created a vibrant international market for nuclear and missile technologies, providing centrifuges, rockets and know-how to countries like Iran and North Korea. Intelligence reports from the U.S., the International Atomic Energy Agency and the British government estimate that these cou...
[...] U.S. nuclear forces must be postured to have the needed deterrence benefits but also to promote the international cooperation needed for preventing and rolling back proliferation.2 Thus, on one path the report recommends a strong push via the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) regime to prevent other countries from acquiring nuclear weapons. [...] the report does not even begin down the path toward elimination.\n The comparison also does not include the several thousand additional warheads that the United States keeps in reserve for potential upload or its inventory of nonstrategic warheads.40 Even if a START follow-on were to set a limit as low as 1,000 for the number of deployed strategic warheads, that level would still exceed the combined number of Russian and Chinese nucl...
Although Iran continues to claim its nuclear-development program is designed for peaceful purposes, U.S. intelligence services think Iran is developing nuclear weapons. A number of countries have nuclear weapons, but these countries are considered stable, and they fall within the parameters of mutual deterrence and rational conduct, except for North Korea. Iran poses a significant risk of possibly using nuclear weapons because of its unstable leadership. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed that Israel, the United States and other Western countries are Iran's enemies. The Iranian Defense Ministry recently published information on a nuclear-attack strategy to be used against the United States, Israel and, potentially, other nations.
It proposed that the United States turn over control of all its enriched uranium, including that in any nuclear weapons it had, to a new UN body (over which the United States and the other permanent members of the security Council would have a veto) and that all countries in the world should be prohibited from possessing their own nuclear weapons.
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