Reversing the Arms Race; How to Achieve and Verify Deep Reductions in the Nuclear Arsenals

Beschreibung

xi, [1], 432, [2] pages. Figures. Footnotes. Formulas. Tables. Glossary. Name of previous owner on half title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is a book reporting results from the Cooperative Research Project on Arms Reductions of the Federation of American Scientists and the Committee of Soviet scientists for Peace and Aganinst the Nuclear Threat. This is the first volume of the Science & Global Security Monograph Series from this published. Frank N. von Hippel (born 1937) is an American physicist. He is Professor and Co-Director of Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. In the 1980s, as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, Von Hippel partnered with Evgenyi Velikhov in advising Mikhail Gorbachev on the technical basis for steps to end the nuclear arms race. Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sagdeev graduated from Moscow State University. He is a member of both the Russian Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has worked at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1989 in the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2001). Topics covered include: Verifying Reductions of Nuclear Warheads; Verifying Limits on Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles; and The Technical Basis for Warhead Detection. Among the contributors are: Theodore B. Taylor and Thomas B. Cochran.

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Titel

Reversing the Arms Race; How to Achieve and Verify Deep Reductions in the Nuclear Arsenals

Verlag

Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

2881243908

ISBN-13

9782881243905

Einband

Trade paperback

Auflage

Presumed First Edition, First printing.

Zustand

Very good

Verkäuferkataloge

• Arms Control

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