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Book SynopsisThis is an intense and meticulously sourced study on the topic of nuclear weapons proliferation, beginning with America''s introduction of the Atomic Age... His book provides a full explanation of America''s policy with a time sequence necessarily focusing on the domino effect of states acquiring a nuclear weapons capability and the import of bureaucratic decisions on international political behavior.? Choice
Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the keys to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s onward. The Chinese and Indian nuclear tests in the 1960s and 1970s forced the US government, Miller contends, to pay new and considerable attention to the idea of nonproliferation and to reexamine its foreign policies.
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This is an intense and meticulously sourced study on the topic of nuclear weapons proliferation, beginning with America's introduction of the Atomic Age. Miller (Dartmouth) has refitted his doctoral dissertation theorizing on the extent of the effectiveness of America's foreign policy to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. His book provides a full explanation of America's policy with a time sequence necessarily focusing on the domino effect of states acquiring a nuclear weapons capability and the import of bureaucratic decisions on international political behavior.
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Overall, Miller's book presents a thorough and compelling case for US sanctions policy for nonproliferation. Stopping the Bomb adds to our understanding of when and why sanctions policies are effective, serving as an excellent analysis of one of the hardest areas to study methodologically. As a result, the book serves as an important read.
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