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Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Alistair Millar
Brian Alexander
其他書名
Emergent Threats in an Evolving Security Environment
出版
Potomac Books, Inc.
, 2003-07-31
主題
History / Military / Nuclear Warfare
Political Science / International Relations / General
ISBN
1612344437
9781612344430
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=G96hEyqXDlYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
For three decades, arms control treaties have provided a legal basis for limiting and reducing long-range nuclear weapons. However, thousands of sub-strategic, or tactical, nuclear weapons (TNWs) are not monitored or controlled by any existing treaties or formal agreements, even though they can pose security risks equal to or exceeding those of strategic nuclear weapons. As the world has seen, the rise of international terrorism highlights the potential dangers of tactical nuclear weapons. Because they can be relatively small and portable-particularly but not exclusively in the case of so-cal.