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U.S. Security Policy in a Nuclear-Armed World, or What if Iraq Had Had Nuclear Weapons?

Barry R. Posen

in Victor A. Utgoff, ed., The Coming Crisis: Nuclear Proliferation, US Interests, and World Order (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000)

An exploration of how nuclear proliferation may affect US incentives to confront regional aggression.