ISBN:
9780833058652
,
0833058673
,
0833058657
,
9780833058676
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 128 pages)
Series Statement:
Rand Corporation monograph series MG-1154-SRF
Parallel Title:
Print version Coping with a nuclearizing Iran
Keywords:
Nuclear weapons
;
Nuclear weapons
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HISTORY ; Military ; Nuclear Warfare
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; Arms Control
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Diplomatic relations
;
Iran
;
United States
;
Nuclear weapons
;
Strategic aspects of individual places
;
Iran Strategic aspects
;
Iran Foreign relations
;
United States Foreign relations
;
Iran
;
Iran
;
United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons or even that it will gain the capacity to quickly produce them. U.S. and even Israeli analysts continually push their estimates for such an event further into the future. Nevertheless, absent a change in Iranian policy, it is reasonable to assume that, some time in the coming decade, Iran will acquire such a capability. Most recent scholarly studies have also focused on how to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Other, less voluminous writing looks at what to do after Iran becomes a nuclear power. What has so far been lacking is a policy framework for dealing with Iran before, after, and, indeed, during its crossing of the nuclear threshold. This monograph attempts to fill that gap by providing a midterm strategy for dealing with Iran that neither begins nor ends at the point at which Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon capability. It proposes an approach that neither acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran nor refuses to admit the possibility -- indeed, the likelihood -- of this occurring
Abstract:
It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons or even that it will gain the capacity to quickly produce them. U.S. and even Israeli analysts continually push their estimates for such an event further into the future. Nevertheless, absent a change in Iranian policy, it is reasonable to assume that, some time in the coming decade, Iran will acquire such a capability. Most recent scholarly studies have also focused on how to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Other, less voluminous writing looks at what to do after Iran becomes a nuclear power. What has so far been lacking is a policy framework for dealing with Iran before, after, and, indeed, during its crossing of the nuclear threshold. This monograph attempts to fill that gap by providing a midterm strategy for dealing with Iran that neither begins nor ends at the point at which Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon capability. It proposes an approach that neither acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran nor refuses to admit the possibility -- indeed, the likelihood -- of this occurring
Note:
"National Security Research Division
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-128)
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