Military politics, nuclear proliferation, and the ‘nuclear coup d'etat’

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Notes

The author, on partial leave from Hudson Institute, is completing a book on ‘Life in a Proliferating World’ for the Twentieth Century Fund. An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the XVII Annual Convention, International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, 25–29 February 1976. I would like to thank both Richard Betts and Colin Gray for their helpful suggestions in preparing this revised version. This paper represents the views of its author. There has been only limited circulation of the Paper and no formal review procedure. No opinions, statements of fact, or conclusions contained in this document can propertly be attributed to the Institute, its staff, its Members, or its contracting agencies.