Description: Simply not another book on nuclear proliferation, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani provides refreshingly new empirical evidence and theoretical analysis on how epistemic communities have affected nuclear non-proliferation policy formulation.
Review Quotes:
"Politics and the Bomb brings new perspectives to the vital question of why states do or do not seek nuclear weapons. Dr. Kutchesfahani reveals the inner workings of communities of technical experts that all governments rely upon in order to understand nuclear threats and develop responses to them."
--James E. Doyle, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"This book treads important new ground in the study of non-proliferation by applying an epistemic community lens to illuminating and explaining two important cases studies: the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program and the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials. Kutchesfahani's approach is sure to be imitated by students and scholars alike in the examination of other case studies of non-proliferation."
--Wyn Bowen, King's College London