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1 online resource (xxvi, 128 pages) |
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Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG-1154-SRF |
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Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG-1154-SRF.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 30, 2011). |
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"National Security Research Division." |
| Summary |
It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons or even that it will gain the capacity to quickly produce them. U.S. and even Israeli analysts continually push their estimates for such an event further into the future. Nevertheless, absent a change in Iranian policy, it is reasonable to assume that, some time in the coming decade, Iran will acquire such a capability. Most recent scholarly studies have also focused on how to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Other, less voluminous writing looks at what to do after Iran becomes a nuclear power. What has so far been lacking is a policy framework for dealing with Iran before, after, and, indeed, during its crossing of the nuclear threshold. This monograph attempts to fill that gap by providing a midterm strategy for dealing with Iran that neither begins nor ends at the point at which Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon capability. It proposes an approach that neither acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran nor refuses to admit the possibility -- indeed, the likelihood -- of this occurring. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-128). |
| Contents |
U.S. interests, objectives, and strategies -- Iran's interests, objectives, and strategies -- The other actors -- U.S. instruments and Iranian vulnerabilities -- Policy alternatives -- Coping with a nuclearizing Iran. |
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Nuclear weapons -- Iran.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran.
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Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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Iran -- Strategic aspects.
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Armes nucléaires -- Iran.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Nuclear Warfare.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Arms Control.
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Diplomatic relations
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Nuclear weapons
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Strategic aspects of individual places
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Iran https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtrYvcVTwChrDqytBvJXd
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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| Added Author |
Dobbins, James, 1942-
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Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division.
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Rand Corporation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coping with a nuclearizing Iran. Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp, 2011 9780833058652 (DLC) 2011942595 (OCoLC)760971853 |
| ISBN |
9780833058676 (electronic bk.) |
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0833058673 (electronic bk.) |
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9780833058652 |
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0833058657 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000051471710 |
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DEBBG BV044160394 |
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DEBSZ 431076227 |
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GBVCP 100865633X |
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HEBIS 299837149 |
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NLGGC 36337678X |
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NZ1 14257606 |
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