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Nuclear Ambitions: The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons 1989-1990

Leonard S. Spector, with Jacqueline Smith
Reviewed by Gregory F. Treverton
Spring 1991
Nuclear Ambitions: The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons 1989-1990
Leonard S. Spector, with Jacqueline Smith
Westview
1990
450 pp.
$54.00
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This, the fifth in Spector's acclaimed series on the spread of nuclear weapons, provides sections on ballistic missiles, submarines and the nuclear trade, in addition to detailed country studies. The Gulf War makes its background all the more timely.

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