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by chadgeidel
5094 days ago
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Do you have any reading material that you could point to in regards to your comment about "the situation in the middle east"? I'm not saying you are incorrect - actually the opposite is true (I believe this to be the case). I'm not much of a student of history and would like to educate myself. Thanks. |
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Frist, the NPT is part of a larger system of treaties, alliances and agreements that grew during the Cold War and its aftermath. 'Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era' (2003) by Thomas Graham and Damien J. Lavera is somewhat dry but exhaustive.
Secondly, here is an interesting over view of US Government thinking on weapons of mass destruction at the end of the cold war:
http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9341/9341.PDF
Finally, Nigel Ashton's 'The Cold War in the Middle East: Regional Conflict and the Superpowers 1967-73' covers the actions of many international actors in the middle east during the critical years during which the Non-Proliferation Treaty was put into effect.
With luck both of these books should be available via inter-library loan.