Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: success or failure? Book Review: Jeffrey M. Kaplow. Signing Away the Bomb: The Surprising Success of the Nonproliferation Regime (2022) (H-Diplo)

 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: success or failure?

Book Review: Jeffrey M. Kaplow. Signing Away the Bomb: The Surprising Success of the Nonproliferation Regime (2022)

 

Excerpt: 

“NPT, which has now passed its 50th anniversary, has 191 states parties, more than any other arms control treaty. Five states that had already developed nuclear weapons (the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China) were allowed to join the NPT as nuclear weapon states; all other members had to join as non-nuclear weapon states, meaning they legally foreswore the option of getting the bomb when they signed the treaty. Only five states are not members: India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, and South Sudan. The first four have nuclear arsenals but cannot legally be recognized under the NPT as nuclear weapon states, so they remain outside the treaty (North Korea was a signatory but withdrew a few years before it conducted its first nuclear test); South Sudan became independent relatively recently and its non-membership is not regarded as a signal of potential interest in a nuclear program.”

 

 

H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-25 on Kaplow, _Signing Away the Bomb_

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H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum

Roundtable Review 15-25

Jeffrey M. Kaplow. Signing Away the Bomb: The Surprising Success of the Nonproliferation Regime.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781009216739 (hardcover, $110). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216746

26 January 2024 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt15-25 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo

 

Contents

Introduction by Jeffrey W. Knopf, Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) 2

Review by Naomi Egel, University of Georgia. 7

Review by Jeffrey S. Lantis, The College of Wooster. 11

Review by J. Luis Rodriguez, George Mason University. 14

Response by Jeffrey M. Kaplow, College of William & Mary. 18

 

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