Gunboat Diplomacy and the Bomb: Nuclear Proliferation and the U.S. Navy

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As more countries develop nuclear weapons, the effectiveness of the bomb as a deterrent reduces. The author discusses this proliferation with regard to the options open to the USA naval forces. Using India, Iran and Libya to present these scenarios, the author discusses whether these countries are immune to superpower intervention or, rather, immune to the purported benefits of nuclear deterrence. Therefore, would proliferation limit options previously available to the USA

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ERIC H. ARNETT is a program associate at the Program on Science, Arms Control, and National Security of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has written about decision processes in Congress, and has been involved in research projects on the Navy and on proliferation that have taken him to the U.S. Naval War College and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute