TY  - BOOK
AU  - BRACKEN Paul
TI  - Fire in the east: the rise of Asian military power and the second nuclear age
SN  - 0060193441 (hbk.):
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Collins
KW  - ASIA
KW  - INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
KW  - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
KW  - NUCLEAR POWER
KW  - NUCLEAR WEAPONS
N2  - Analyses the political, economic, and technological developments which have resulted in up to a dozen Asian countries already, or in the near future, possessing ballistic missiles armed with nuclear, chemical or biological warheads. Considers the implications of these developments for the West and for world stability when Western concepts of deterrence or containment no longer apply
ER  -