The Politics of Ballistic Missile Nonproliferation

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Wyn Q. Bowen

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3. Ballistic Missile Proliferation and the American Response, 1950–89

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   2. Ballistic Missile Proliferation, 1950–89

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   3. The Pre-1989 Evolution of US Missile Nonproliferation Policy

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4. The Politics of Ballistic Missile Nonproliferation, 1989–93

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   2. The Bush Administration and the Missile Technology Control Regime

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   3. Congress and Missile Nonproliferation

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   4. Beyond the MTCR: Negotiating the Adherence of Non-regime Suppliers to Nonproliferation Norms

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5. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

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6. Back Matter

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During the presidency of George Bush (1989-93), the proliferation of nuclear chemical and biological weapons, and the ballistic missiles capable of delivering them, rose greatly in significance as issues on the American security agenda. In the missile field, this became evident by the efforts of certain elements in the executive branch and several congressmen to improve domestic and international implementation of the Missile Technology Control Regime. The Politics of Ballistic Missile Nonproliferation examines the political, bureaucratic and systemic issues that interacted to determine the outcome of these efforts.

• executive
• Policy
• politics
• Proliferation
• technology
• weapons

• Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK

  Wyn Q. Bowen

WYN Q. BOWEN has been a Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, since 1997. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate on the Monitoring Proliferation Threats Project, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California. In 1997 and 1998 he took part in a total of three ballistic missile inspections in Iraq with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). He is the co-author (with David H.Dunn) of Beyond Containment: US Security Policy in the 1990s.

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