IFRI - Proliferation Papers http://www.ifri.org/?page=nos-publications Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:10:23 +0200 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:10:23 +0200 IFRI 30 webmaster@ifri.org webmaster@ifri.org Potential Strategic Consequences of the Nuclear Energy Revival http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=6139 Renewed interest throughout the globe in harnessing nuclear energy has raised concern about security threats from states and non-state actors while holding out the promise of more electricity for m... Thu, 8 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200 Chinese Perceptions of the Utility of Nuclear Weapons. Prospects and Potential Problems in Disarmament http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=6101 This paper takes a careful look at China's perceptions of the role of nuclear weapons in its national security policy and defense posture. This is important because China is perceived to be the onl... Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200 North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development: Implications for Future Policy http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=6004 Despite the resumption of high-level diplomatic contact between Washington and Pyongyang in late 2009, realization of a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula remains a very remote prospect, with the DPRK ... Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200 La Russie, la Chine et les Etats-Unis : quel avenir pour ce triangle stratégique ? http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=5860 Au cours des dix dernières années, les débats étaient centrés sur l'émergence d'un nouvel ordre mondial dans lequel l'« unipolarité » américaine serait remplacée par des rapports plus équilibrés en... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 In Search of the Nuclear Taboo: Past, Present, and Future http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=5798 One of the most puzzling - if positive - phenomena of the past half century is the non-use of nuclear weapons. This essay seeks to probe the underpinnings of nuclear weapons restraint, the strength... Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Numerology in the Second Nuclear Age http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=5673 The nuclear numbers game has changed. During the Cold War, deterrence strategists claimed that the nuclear balance mattered, even at extraordinarily high numbers. By this musty logic, the United St... Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 The Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions. Dealing with American Conventional Superiority http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=5575 Dans un contexte de reprise du débat sur la réduction des arsenaux nucléaires, Dennis Gormley analyse les récents développements des capacités conventionnelles américaines comme moyen de contre-pro... Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200 Dangerous Weapons in Dangerous Hands. Responding to the Challenges of Chemical and Biological Terrorism http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=5389 Like much of the international security environment, the challenge of Chemical and Biological Terrorism has become more complex and uncertain in the last decade. Many issues related to CBW terroris... Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200 The World After: Proliferation, Deterrence and Disarmament if the Nuclear Taboo is Broken http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=5368 The nuclear taboo is customarily seen as a black and white norm, separating the world of the familiar from that of an unknowable afterlife. Though consequences of a breaking of the nuclear taboo us... Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200 Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&id=5303 Unstable dynamics surrounding Iran's nuclear program may be pushing the world closer to the use of nuclear weapons than is generally realized ndash; perhaps closer than any time since the Cuban mi... Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100