TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lanoszka,Alexander
TI  - Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation 
T2  - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
SN  - 9781501729195
AV  - JZ5675 
U1  - 327.1747 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Nuclear arms control
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Nuclear nonproliferation
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - Security Studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation --; 1. How Alliances (Mis)Manage Nuclear Proliferation --; 2. American Security Guarantees during the Cold War, 1949-1980 --; 3. West Germany, 1954-1970 --; 4. Japan, 1952-1980 --; 5. South Korea, 1968-1980 --; 6. Nuclear Proliferation and Other American Alliances --; Conclusion: Understanding and Managing Alliances in the 21st Century --; Notes --; Index
N2  - Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of their allies.Alexander Lanoszka finds that military alliances are less useful in preventing allies from acquiring nuclear weapons than conventional wisdom suggests. Through intensive case studies of West Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as well as a series of smaller cases on Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and Taiwan, Atomic Assurance shows that it is easier to prevent an ally from initiating a nuclear program than to stop an ally that has already started one; in-theater conventional forces are crucial in making American nuclear guarantees credible; the American coercion of allies who started, or were tempted to start, a nuclear weapons program has played less of a role in forestalling nuclear proliferation than analysts have assumed; and the economic or technological reliance of a security-dependent ally on the United States works better to reverse or to halt that ally's nuclear bid than anything else.Crossing diplomatic history, international relations, foreign policy, grand strategy, and nuclear strategy, Lanoszka's book reworks our understanding of the power and importance of alliances in stopping nuclear proliferation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501729195?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501729195
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501729195/original
ER  -