Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction How Do New Nuclear States Behave? 1
7. Chapter 1 Nuclear Opportunism How States Use Nuclear Weapons in International Politics 9
8. Chapter 2 Independence and Status The British Nuclear Experience 36
9. Chapter 3 Apartheid and Aggression South Africa, Angola, and the Bomb 78
10. Chapter 4 The Foundations of a New World Order The United States and the Start of the Nuclear Era 112
11. Chapter 5 Past and Future Proliferators 147
12. Conclusion Nuclear Revolution or Nuclear Revolutions? 164
13. Notes 175
14. Index 209