- Source: Perlombaan senjata nuklir
Perlombaan senjata nuklir adalah kompetisi perlombaan senjata untuk supremasi dalam perang nuklir antara Amerika Serikat, Uni Soviet dan sekutu mereka masing-masing pada Perang Dingin. Pada masa yang sama, selain jumlah stok nuklir Amerika Soviet, negara lainnya mengembangkan senjata nuklir, meskipun tak ada yang melakukan produksi senjata perang pada nyaris skala yang sama dengan kedua adidaya tersebut.
Referensi
Boughton, G. J. (1974). Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (16th ed.). Miami, United States of America: Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami.
Brown, A. Reform, Coup and Collapse: The End of the Soviet State. BBC History. Retrieved November 22, 2012
Cold War: A Brief History. (n.d.). Atomic Archive. Retrieved November 16, 2012
Doty, P., Carnesale, A., & Nacht, M. (1976, October). The Race to Control Nuclear Arms.
Jones, R. W. (1998). Pakistan's Nuclear Posture: Arms Race Instabilities in South Asia.
Joyce, A., Bates Graber, R., Hoffman, T. J., Paul Shaw, R., & Wong, Y. (1989, February). The Nuclear Arms Race: An Evolutionary Perspective.
Maloney, S. M. (2007). Learning to love the bomb: Canada's nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Washington, D.C: Potomac Books.
May, E. R. (n.d.). John F Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. BBC History. Retrieved November 22, 2012
Van, C. M. (1993). Nuclear proliferation and the future of conflict. New York, United States: Free Press.
Bacaan tambahan
"Presidency in the Nuclear Age", conference and forum at the JFK Library, Boston, October 12, 2009. Four panels: "The Race to Build the Bomb and the Decision to Use It", "Cuban Missile Crisis and the First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", "The Cold War and the Nuclear Arms Race", and "Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, and the Presidency".
Pranala luar
Erik Ringmar, "The Recognition Game: Soviet Russia Against the West," Cooperation & Conflict, 37:2, 2002. pp. 115–36. -- the arms race between the superpowers explained through the concept of recognition.
Annotated bibliography on the nuclear arms race from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Perjanjian Nonproliferasi Senjata Nuklir
- Perlombaan senjata nuklir
- Daftar negara dengan senjata nuklir
- Perlombaan senjata
- Perlombaan Antariksa
- Perang Dingin
- Teori penggentar
- Gerakan anti perang
- Julius Robert Oppenheimer
- Daya ledak senjata nuklir