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By Wyn Q. Bowen

ISBN-10: 0415412382

ISBN-13: 9780415412384

For over 3 many years, pushed by way of the center cause of deterring exterior threats to its safety, Libya sought to obtain nuclear guns. Having tried yet did not procure them ‘off the shelf’ from a number of states through the Nineteen Seventies, via past due 2003 it had succeeded in assembling a lot of the know-how required to fabricate them. however, following mystery negotiations with the united kingdom and US governments, in December 2003 Colonel Muammar Gadhafi resolved to desert the pursuit of nuclear and different guns of mass destruction. This choice mirrored the regime's appreciably altered safeguard perceptions in the course of the Nineteen Nineties and early twenty-first century. The pursuit of nuclear guns had end up considered as a strategic liability.

This Adelphi Paper examines the factors for Libya's pursuit of a nuclear guns strength, from Gadhafi's upward thrust to energy in 1969 via to past due 2003. It assesses the proliferation pathways that the regime undefined, together with early dependence on Soviet know-how and counsel and, thus, its reliance at the A.Q. Khan community. It examines the choice to renounce the hunt for nuclear guns, targeting the most elements that encouraged the regime's calculations, together with the perceived have to re-engage with the overseas neighborhood and the USA specifically. the method of dismantling the nuclear programme can be addressed, as is the query of even if Libya constitutes a ‘model’ for addressing the demanding situations posed by means of different proliferators.

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