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Tempting fate : why nonnuclear states confront nuclear opponents /

Avey, Paul C.,

Tempting fate : why nonnuclear states confront nuclear opponents / Paul Avey. - 1 online resource. - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The strategic logic of nuclear monopoly -- Iraq versus the United States -- Egypt versus Israel -- China versus the United States -- Soviet Union versus the United States.



"Weak nonnuclear armed states have a number of strategies to win limited victories against nuclear armed opponents"--


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9781501740398 (pdf) 9781501740404 (epub/mobi)

2019020251


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