Weapons Proliferation in Asia
Any reassessment of the changing Asian security environment must allow considerable space for the large, unresolved issues of earlier years. Despite the rush of new issues onto the Asian security agenda, at the core of many regional security problems still lies a continuing worry about an old issue: Weapons proliferation. Indeed, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now appears more worrying than before, precisely because of the change in the nature of war-making units that the events of September 11 have advertised, and the new determination in Washington to act forcefully, and if necessary pre-emptively, to prevent terrorists from acquiring such weapons. Further, WMD remain a major concern of analysts studying the traditional state-centric balance of power in the region. Such concerns are replicated, albeit at a lower level, in relation to the steady accumulation and qualitative improvement of conventional forces in the region. In short, the Asia-Pacific remains an area where regional institutionalization is under-developed, cross-border tensions are comparatively high, weapons capabilities are increasing, and the complex
Alternative nuclear futures : the role of nuclear weapons in the post-cold war world
Preface: The Contemporary Debate about Nuclear Weapons 1. To Confuse Ourselves: Nuclear Fallacies 2. The Unavoidable Importance of Nuclear Weapons 3. Aspiration, Realism and Practical Policy 4. Eliminators, Marginalists and the Politics of Disarmament 5. Nuclear Weapons, Prudence and Morality: The Search for a# Third Way 6. Nuclear Weapons and the Post-Cold War Middle East: Business as Usual 7. The South Asian Nuclear Challenge 8. Nuclear Disarmament: The Case for Incrimentalism 9. The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 10. Reflecting on War in the 21st Century: The Context for Nuclear Abolition 11. At the End of a Journey: The Risks of Cold War Thinking in a New Era 12. Weapons of the Under Dog Appendix 1: Prepared Statement on the Future of Nuclear Deterrence Appendix 2: Legality of the use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Confict Appendix 3: 1996 Pronouncement on Nuclear Weapons Appendix 4: Executive Summary
Effects of signaling topic structure on text recall
Two experiments studied effects of signaling devices (headings, overviews, and summaries) on text memory. In Experiment 1, subjects read a text with or without signals, then recalled the topics of the text. Signaling produced better memory for the topics and their organization. In Experiment 2, subjects recalled the content of the text they read, and recalls were scored for the number of accurately recalled ideas. Signals produced recalls that were better organized by text topics. Signals also influenced the distribution of recall of ideas: Subjects remembered more topics but recalled less about each accessed topic if the text they read contained signals than if it did not