Avoiding a Nuclear Crowd: How to Resist the Weapon’s Spread
Sokolski, Henry
Policy Review, June/July 2009, #155, pp15-32
"If current trends continue, in a decade or less, the United Kingdom could find its nuclear forces eclipsed not only by those of Pakistan, but of Israel and India as well. Shortly thereafter, France could share the same fate. China, which has already amassed enough separated plutonium and highly enriched uranium to easily triple its current stockpile of roughly 300 deployed nuclear warheads, also is likely to increase its deployed numbers, quietly, during the coming years. Meanwhile, over 25 states have announced their desire to build a large nuclear reactor — a key aspect of most previous nuclear weapons programs — before 2030."
Henry Sokolski is executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
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A4/04-09. Posted August 27, 2009
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