Publisher's Synopsis
In Last Chance: Getting Serious about Nuclear Proliferation</i>, Henry Sokolski argues that efforts at preventing nuclear proliferation have largely been a failure. He maintains that now is the time to correct that, because the spread of nuclear weapons is not inevitable, and because maintaining successful relations with countries that are building nuclear arsenals is a necessity.
Existing controls assume that nuclear technology can be kept peaceful through occasional international inspections and monitoring. Yet, the lessons of Iran and North Korea prove that premise shaky. A nation can come within weeks of acquiring a large arsenal of weapons (10-20 bombs)—all while following current legal controls. As this book makes clear, getting serious about the nuclear threat requires that the United States and other like-minded nations reinterpret and enforce the existing controls and supplement them with new ones. Progress in this area is possible, and Last Chance</i> explains the key measures that need to be considered before it's too late.
