450 pages. Wraps. Maps. Tables. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Cover has

450 pages. Wraps. Maps. Tables. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Cover has wear and soiling. Leonard S. Spector is deputy director of the Institute of International Studies' Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He joined CNS from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where he was an assistant deputy administrator for arms control and nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration. His responsibilities included development and implementation of arms control and nonproliferation policy related to treaties; US domestic and multilateral export controls; inspection and technical cooperation activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency; civilian nuclear activities in the US and abroad; initiatives in regions of proliferation concern, including the canning of plutonium-spent nuclear fuel in North Korea and Kazakhstan; and transparency provisions of agreements with Russia covering the purchase of weapons-grade uranium and the cessation of plutonium production. The Gulf War made its background all the more timely. The authors' fifth volume of a highly acclaimed series on the spread of nuclear weapons. With up-to-the-minute reporting, they assess the increasing threat of nuclear conflict in the Third World and analyses key long-term trends, including the growing impact of chemical weapon and ballistic missile proliferation on the strategic balance in the Middle East. "Nuclear Ambitions" is a Carnegie Endowment project, supported by grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Brothers fund. The author chronicles the increasing threat of nuclear conflict in the Third World, and assesses key long-term trends, including the growing impact of chemical weapon and ballistic missile proliferation on the strategic balance in the Middle East.