Publisher's Synopsis
The authors' fifth volume of a highly acclaimed series on the spread of nuclear weapons. With up-to-the-minute reporting, they assess the increasing threat of nuclear conflict in the Third World and analyses key long-term trends, including the growing impact of chemical weapon and ballistic missile proliferation on the strategic balance in the Middle East.;"Nuclear Ambitions" is a Carnegie Endowment project, supported by grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Brothers fund.