How Nuclear Materials and Technology Spread, 23 September 2010
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
Why do nuclear weapons spread? In new books David Albright, author of Peddling Peril and Matthew Kroenig, author of Exporting the Bomb, argue that the international diffusion of nuclear materials and technology is an important cause of nuclear weapons proliferation. But the authors disagree on the nature of the problem and how to best address it. Does proliferation take place in shadowy black markets by profit-driven firms or do would-be proliferators benefit most from strategic state decisions to help other countries acquire nuclear weapons? Should U.S. nonproliferation policy rest on promoting tighter export controls in other countries or rather in issuing deterrent threats against potential nuclear suppliers? Join the authors for a discussion of these questions and the broader subject of nuclear weapons proliferation moderated by Carnegie’s Deepti Choubey.
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