Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected. To explain this puzzling slowdown in proliferation, Jacques E. C. Hymans focuses on the relations between politicians and scientific and technical workers in developing countries. Weak state institutions permit many developing country rulers to take actions that undermine their workers' spirit of professionalism. In so doing, those rulers unintentionally thwart their own nuclear ambitions.
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