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Dwight L. Williams.
Baker, Amanda, S. B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
2009-03-16T19:48:45Z
2009-03-16T19:48:45Z
2008
2008
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44832
301569119
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-47).
U.S. nuclear weapons force structure accounts for the number and types of strategic and nonstrategic weapon systems in various locations that comprise the nuclear arsenal. While exact numbers, locations, and detailed designs remain classified, motivations for the current and future of the nuclear arsenal is presented as a unique integration of logical technical and political information. The dynamic that results from military requirements, physical design limitations, and congressional response to balance deterrence with stockpile reductions has not produced the necessary level of change in the post-Cold War environment of the 21st century. As such, a stagnant position on nuclear weapons reductions diminishes the effect of U.S. global nonproliferation efforts.
by Amanda Baker.
S.B.
47 p.
eng
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Nuclear Science and Engineering.
An analysis of technical and policy drivers in Current U.S. nuclear weapons force structure
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