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Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities

Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities by Mitchell Reiss

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

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978-0-943875-71-2 paperback
Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities by Mitchell Reiss

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This study presents an account of why nuclear weapons are rapidly becoming less attractive than they once seemed and what factors can motivate a country's leaders to keep nuclear ambitions in check. Written by an arms control expert, Bridled Ambition explains how nine countries—South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan and North Korea—have recently capped, curtailed, or rolled back their nuclear weapons programmes. Among the issues discussed how, when, where and why South Africa built the bomb, how they planned to use it and why they gave it up. There are details of the classified 1992 denuclearization agreement that Russia forced Belarus to sign, setting the timetable for the return of SS-25 ICBMs to Russia. Other previously confidential information is discussed.

Mitchell Reiss is a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

About the Author

Mitchell Reiss

Mitchell Reiss

Former Distinguished Fellow;
Ambassador (retired); Former President and CEO, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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