Fire In the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age

Bracken, Paul

ISBN 10: 0060931558 / ISBN 13: 9780060931551

Published by Harper Perennial, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire In the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060931558
• ISBN 13: 9780060931551
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

On May 11, 1998, India began testing nuclear weapons.
The world will never be the same.

The Indian test of five atomic bombs, and the Pakistani tests that answered a few weeks later, marked the end of the arms control system that has kept the world from nuclear war for half a century. As Paul Bracken, professor of management and political science at Yale University, explains in this landmark study, they signal the reemergence of something the world hasn't seen since the sixteenth century-modern technologically adept military powers on the mainland of Asia.

In Fire in the East, Professor Bracken reveals several alarming trends and secrets, such as how close Isreal actually came to a germ warfare attack during the Gulf War, why "globalization" will spur the development of weapons of mass destruction, how American interests are endangered by Asian nationalism, and how to navigate what he names the second nuclear age. Fire in the East is a provocative account of how the Western monopoly on modern arms is coming to an end, and how it will forever transform America's role on the stage of international politics.

About the Author

Paul Bracken is a professor of management and political science at Yale University and a well-established expert in the field of international politics. He has served as a consultant to nearly all of the post-cold war government reassessments of national security, including those for the Department of Defense and the CIA. He is the author of Command and Control of Nuclear Forces.