Synopses & Reviews
Most nuclear proliferation literature is focused on states seeking nuclear weapons, conducted in most cases clandestinely. The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is as important strategically, if unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics. This book proposes to answer why, if nuclear weapons are such good preservers of peace, are states not more willing to see them proliferate? Schofield also examines the underlying phenomenon of the threat of proliferation races, and how nonproliferation bargains between adversaries make nuclear sharing far less common. But sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War, including the cases of France-Israel, US-NATO, Russia-China, Israel-South Africa, China-Pakistan and Pakistan-Iran, as well as the incidence of soft balancing and permissive nuclear sharing in the cases of the US and Japan, Israel and India.
Synopsis
The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War.
About the Author
Julian Schofield is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Canada and a retired Army Engineer Officer. He is the author of Militarization and War (2007), and with Usama Butt, Pakistan: the US, Geopolitics and Grand Strategies (2012). He has conducted research in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt and Indonesia.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Nuclear Sharing and Why More May Be Better
2. Theories of Nuclear Non-Sharing
3. The Theory of Nuclear Sharing
4. Nuclear Proliferation Races and Nonproliferation Bargains
5. Wartime Cooperation: The Early Cases of Nuclear Sharing
6. The Nature of Off-The-Shelf Requests
7. French Nuclear Assistance to Israel
8. The USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact and Cuba
9. Sharing within the Western Alliance
10. Israel and South Africa - Nuclear Collaboration
11. Chinese Nuclear Assistance to Pakistan and North Korea
12. Nuclear Sharing and Pakistan, North Korea and Iran
13. Soft Nuclear Sharing
14. Conclusion