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Most nuclear proliferation literature is focused on states seeking nuclear weapons, conducted in most cases clandestinely. The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is as important strategically, if unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics. This book proposes to answer why, if nuclear weapons are such good preservers of peace, are states not more willing to see them proliferate? Schofield also examines the underlying phenomenon of the threat of proliferation races, and how nonproliferation bargains between adversaries make nuclear sharing far less common. But sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War, including the cases of France-Israel, US-NATO, Russia-China, Israel-South Africa, China-Pakistan and Pakistan-Iran, as well as the incidence of soft balancing and permissive nuclear sharing in the cases of the US and Japan, Israel and India.

Militarization and war -- Pakistan, direct militarization, and the 1965 war -- India, non-militarization, and the 1971 war -- Israel, civilian militarization, and the 1965 war -- Israel, embedded civilian militarization, and the 1967 war -- Egypt, elite militarization, and the 1973 war -- Iran, elite militarization, and the 1969-1975 conflict -- Iraq, under-militarization, and the 1980 war