William C Potter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1077428 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William C Potter |
| NOMBRES | William C |
| APELLIDO | Potter |
| FIRMA | POTTER W C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Death Dust
Since September 11, 2001, most expert commentary on radiological weapons has focused on nonstate actors, to the neglect of state-level programs. In fact, numerous countries in the past have expressed interest in radiological weapons; a number have actively pursued them; and three tested them on multiple occasions before ultimately deciding not to deploy the weapons. Why is so little known about these false starts, especially outside the United St…
Once and Future Partners
"This Adelphi book reaches back to episodes of US-Soviet cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation to idenfify factors that permitted successful joint action, even in circumstances of profound geopolitical rivalry. It includes essays on the collaboration that prevented South Africa from conducting a nuclear-weapon test in 1977; Cold War era discussions on peaceful nuclear explosions and the developments that led from the Limited Test-Ban Treaty to…
Disarmament Diplomacy and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
A little-noticed phrase agreed by the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference laid the foundation for a surprisingly successful effort to achieve a legal prohibition on nuclear weapons
The Unfulfilled Promise of the 2015 NPT Review Conference
The view that the 2015 NPT Review Conference failed because of American, British and Canadian obstructionism is misleading, and sometimes disingenuous
Reducing Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Control of US and Russian tactical nuclear weapons has remained an elusive goal since the end of the Cold War, despite the fact that these weapons are particularly attractive to nuclear terrorists and represent a major danger from the standpoint of early or accidental use. Meaningful progress will probably require a larger deal in which there are trade-off between US concessions on issues of interest to Russia and Russian concessions on tactical …
The npt & the sources of nuclear restraint
Daedalus Winter 2010 The past decade has not been kind to the nuclear nonproliferation regime.1 Indeed, since the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (npt) was extended inde1⁄2nitely in 1995, it has been subjected to a series of body blows, which have led many nonproliferation experts, policy-makers, and media pundits to prophesize an impending cascade or chain of nuclear weapons spread, as well as the possible demise of the npt as …
Divining Nuclear Intentions
Although projections of nuclear proliferation abound, they rarely are founded on empirical research or guided by theory. Even fewer studies are informed by a comparative perspective. The two books under review—The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy, by Jacques Hymans, and Nuclear Logics: Alternative Paths in East Asia and the Middle East, by Etel Solingen, are welcome exceptions to this general state of af…
India and the New Look of u.s. Nonproliferation Policy
U.S. nuclear export policy has undergone major transformations since 1945, and the most recent change, as expressed in the July 18, 2005, India-U.S. Joint Statement, represents an especially significant shift in policy. The document reverses more than a quarter century of U.S. declaratory policy, suggesting that the current U.S. administration regards nuclear proliferation to be both inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing. This article invest…
The Four Faces of Nuclear Terror
Graham Allison was among the first scholars to sound the alarm about the risks of Russian loose nukes, and in How to Stop Nuclear Terrorism (January/February 2004), he continues to warn of this underappreciated danger. He is right to highlight the inadequacy of current U.S. and international efforts to deny terrorists access to fissile material. And he makes a compelling case for the need to develop a more coherent and multilateral strategy for s…
Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States
The Soviet military's performance at Chernobyl
THE ACCIDENT at the Chernobyl nuclear power station (NPS) on 26 April 1986 was a disaster of global proportions that has changed the politics of nuclear power in the Soviet Union and abroad. It has also given rise to an enormous volume of governmental and corporate studies, scholarly and popular books and articles, and even poetry, films and plays. Except in Soviet newspaper and journal accounts, however, surprisingly little has been written abou…
The Soviet Union and the spread of ballistic missiles
International Nuclear Trade and Nonproliferation
Verification
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Nuclear Proliferation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam C. PotterWilliam C. Potter is executive director of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation: an Interdisciplinary Perspective (1982), and the coeditor of Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security, (1984)
The strategic consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia for the Soviet Union
Verification and Arms Control
The Soviet Union and Nuclear Proliferation
Prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons has long been a theme of the Soviet! Union's declaratory arms control policy. It has also found concrete expression in Moscow's endorsement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America of 1967 (Treaty of Tlatelolco), the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968, and, since 1958, in the stringent nuclear export policy of the Soviet Union. Altho…
Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security
Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation
Verification and Salt
Verification and Salt
Issue area and foreign policy analysis
The past decade has witnessed the investment of considerable energy and ingenuity in the refinement of the categories of foreign policy determinants proposed in James Rosenau's famous essay, “Pre-theories and Theories of Foreign Policy.” A sizable literature on foreign policy behavior is now developing, based upon empirical tests of the explanatory power of such variables as size, wealth, degree of political accountability, decision-maker attribu…
Coping with Mirv in a MAD World
Since 1965 when the problem of verifying a MIRV ban was added to the charge that MIRV was a threat to deterrence stability, the case against MIRV has remained essentially unchanged. Although MIRV was defended alternatively as a cost-effective means to cover increased Soviet targets, a hedge against Soviet ABM designs, a weapon in the domestic battle over ABM, and a bargaining chip in international negotiations, the principal charge against MIRV (…
Personal Mobility and Communication in the Warsaw Pact States
HE RELATIONSHIP between social communication and various indices of economic and political development has long intrigued social scientists.' Relatively few studies, however, have sought to assess the impact of type of political system on a nation's social communication profile. A major hypothesis of this paper is that political organization and ideology do influence a society's distribution of communication resources with considerable independen…
Issue area and foreign policy analysis
The past decade has witnessed the investment of considerable energy and ingenuity in the refinement of the categories of foreign policy determinants proposed in James Rosenau's famous essay, “Pre-theories and Theories of Foreign Policy.” A sizable literature on foreign policy behavior is now developing, based upon empirical tests of the explanatory power of such variables as size, wealth, degree of political accountability, decision-maker attribu…
The npt & the sources of nuclear restraint
Daedalus Winter 2010 The past decade has not been kind to the nuclear nonproliferation regime.1 Indeed, since the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (npt) was extended inde1⁄2nitely in 1995, it has been subjected to a series of body blows, which have led many nonproliferation experts, policy-makers, and media pundits to prophesize an impending cascade or chain of nuclear weapons spread, as well as the possible demise of the npt as …
The Soviet Union and Nuclear Proliferation
Prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons has long been a theme of the Soviet! Union's declaratory arms control policy. It has also found concrete expression in Moscow's endorsement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America of 1967 (Treaty of Tlatelolco), the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968, and, since 1958, in the stringent nuclear export policy of the Soviet Union. Altho…
Verification and Arms Control
Verification
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security
Disarmament Diplomacy and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
A little-noticed phrase agreed by the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference laid the foundation for a surprisingly successful effort to achieve a legal prohibition on nuclear weapons
The Unfulfilled Promise of the 2015 NPT Review Conference
The view that the 2015 NPT Review Conference failed because of American, British and Canadian obstructionism is misleading, and sometimes disingenuous
International Nuclear Trade and Nonproliferation
Nuclear Proliferation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam C. PotterWilliam C. Potter is executive director of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation: an Interdisciplinary Perspective (1982), and the coeditor of Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security, (1984)
Death Dust
Since September 11, 2001, most expert commentary on radiological weapons has focused on nonstate actors, to the neglect of state-level programs. In fact, numerous countries in the past have expressed interest in radiological weapons; a number have actively pursued them; and three tested them on multiple occasions before ultimately deciding not to deploy the weapons. Why is so little known about these false starts, especially outside the United St…
Reducing Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Control of US and Russian tactical nuclear weapons has remained an elusive goal since the end of the Cold War, despite the fact that these weapons are particularly attractive to nuclear terrorists and represent a major danger from the standpoint of early or accidental use. Meaningful progress will probably require a larger deal in which there are trade-off between US concessions on issues of interest to Russia and Russian concessions on tactical …
The Soviet military's performance at Chernobyl
THE ACCIDENT at the Chernobyl nuclear power station (NPS) on 26 April 1986 was a disaster of global proportions that has changed the politics of nuclear power in the Soviet Union and abroad. It has also given rise to an enormous volume of governmental and corporate studies, scholarly and popular books and articles, and even poetry, films and plays. Except in Soviet newspaper and journal accounts, however, surprisingly little has been written abou…
Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation
Verification and Salt
Personal Mobility and Communication in the Warsaw Pact States
HE RELATIONSHIP between social communication and various indices of economic and political development has long intrigued social scientists.' Relatively few studies, however, have sought to assess the impact of type of political system on a nation's social communication profile. A major hypothesis of this paper is that political organization and ideology do influence a society's distribution of communication resources with considerable independen…
Personal Mobility and Communication in the Warsaw Pact States
Coping with Mirv in a MAD World
Since 1965 when the problem of verifying a MIRV ban was added to the charge that MIRV was a threat to deterrence stability, the case against MIRV has remained essentially unchanged. Although MIRV was defended alternatively as a cost-effective means to cover increased Soviet targets, a hedge against Soviet ABM designs, a weapon in the domestic battle over ABM, and a bargaining chip in international negotiations, the principal charge against MIRV (…
Issue area and foreign policy analysis
The past decade has witnessed the investment of considerable energy and ingenuity in the refinement of the categories of foreign policy determinants proposed in James Rosenau's famous essay, “Pre-theories and Theories of Foreign Policy.” A sizable literature on foreign policy behavior is now developing, based upon empirical tests of the explanatory power of such variables as size, wealth, degree of political accountability, decision-maker attribu…
Verification and Salt
Verification and Salt
Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation
Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security
Nuclear Proliferation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam C. PotterWilliam C. Potter is executive director of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation: an Interdisciplinary Perspective (1982), and the coeditor of Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security, (1984)
The strategic consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia for the Soviet Union
Verification and Arms Control
The Soviet Union and Nuclear Proliferation
Prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons has long been a theme of the Soviet! Union's declaratory arms control policy. It has also found concrete expression in Moscow's endorsement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America of 1967 (Treaty of Tlatelolco), the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968, and, since 1958, in the stringent nuclear export policy of the Soviet Union. Altho…
Verification
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Soviet Union and the spread of ballistic missiles
International Nuclear Trade and Nonproliferation
The Soviet military's performance at Chernobyl
THE ACCIDENT at the Chernobyl nuclear power station (NPS) on 26 April 1986 was a disaster of global proportions that has changed the politics of nuclear power in the Soviet Union and abroad. It has also given rise to an enormous volume of governmental and corporate studies, scholarly and popular books and articles, and even poetry, films and plays. Except in Soviet newspaper and journal accounts, however, surprisingly little has been written abou…
Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States
The Four Faces of Nuclear Terror
Graham Allison was among the first scholars to sound the alarm about the risks of Russian loose nukes, and in How to Stop Nuclear Terrorism (January/February 2004), he continues to warn of this underappreciated danger. He is right to highlight the inadequacy of current U.S. and international efforts to deny terrorists access to fissile material. And he makes a compelling case for the need to develop a more coherent and multilateral strategy for s…
India and the New Look of u.s. Nonproliferation Policy
U.S. nuclear export policy has undergone major transformations since 1945, and the most recent change, as expressed in the July 18, 2005, India-U.S. Joint Statement, represents an especially significant shift in policy. The document reverses more than a quarter century of U.S. declaratory policy, suggesting that the current U.S. administration regards nuclear proliferation to be both inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing. This article invest…
Divining Nuclear Intentions
Although projections of nuclear proliferation abound, they rarely are founded on empirical research or guided by theory. Even fewer studies are informed by a comparative perspective. The two books under review—The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy, by Jacques Hymans, and Nuclear Logics: Alternative Paths in East Asia and the Middle East, by Etel Solingen, are welcome exceptions to this general state of af…
Reducing Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Control of US and Russian tactical nuclear weapons has remained an elusive goal since the end of the Cold War, despite the fact that these weapons are particularly attractive to nuclear terrorists and represent a major danger from the standpoint of early or accidental use. Meaningful progress will probably require a larger deal in which there are trade-off between US concessions on issues of interest to Russia and Russian concessions on tactical …
The npt & the sources of nuclear restraint
Daedalus Winter 2010 The past decade has not been kind to the nuclear nonproliferation regime.1 Indeed, since the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (npt) was extended inde1⁄2nitely in 1995, it has been subjected to a series of body blows, which have led many nonproliferation experts, policy-makers, and media pundits to prophesize an impending cascade or chain of nuclear weapons spread, as well as the possible demise of the npt as …
The Unfulfilled Promise of the 2015 NPT Review Conference
The view that the 2015 NPT Review Conference failed because of American, British and Canadian obstructionism is misleading, and sometimes disingenuous
Disarmament Diplomacy and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
A little-noticed phrase agreed by the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference laid the foundation for a surprisingly successful effort to achieve a legal prohibition on nuclear weapons
Once and Future Partners
"This Adelphi book reaches back to episodes of US-Soviet cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation to idenfify factors that permitted successful joint action, even in circumstances of profound geopolitical rivalry. It includes essays on the collaboration that prevented South Africa from conducting a nuclear-weapon test in 1977; Cold War era discussions on peaceful nuclear explosions and the developments that led from the Limited Test-Ban Treaty to…
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