{"product_id":"the-atomic-privilege-dexter-dow-9798251311310","title":"The Atomic Privilege: Weapons, Treaties, and the World's Most Dangerous Double Standard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atomic Privilege \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a rigorous, accessible examination of the modern nuclear order-and t\u003cb\u003ehe dangerous double standard at its core\u003c\/b\u003e. Dexter Dow argues that \u003cb\u003ethe global nonproliferation regime was not built simply to reduce risk. It was built to divide the world into permanent nuclear \"haves\" and \"have-nots,\" granting legitimacy, tolerance, and strategic protection to some states while subjecting others to sanctions, sabotage, invasion, or isolation for pursuing similar capabilities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on treaty law, IAEA reports, declassified archives, official investigations, and decades of geopolitical case studies, this book traces how nuclear inequality became embedded in international law and then converted into force. From the \u003cb\u003eNPT\u003c\/b\u003e and the \u003cb\u003ebroken promise of disarmament to Israel's opacity, Iraq's destruction, Libya's disarmament, Iran's isolation, North Korea's deterrent logic, Ukraine's abandoned assurances, and the collapse of arms control, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eT\u003cb\u003ehe Atomic Privilege\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e shows how the same weapon is treated as stabilizing in the hands of a few and intolerable in the hands of everyone else.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a book about far more than nuclear policy. It is about power, legitimacy, deterrence, international law, military strategy, and the geopolitical consequences of selective enforcement. It also confronts the accelerating dangers of the present moment: superpower modernization, hypersonic weapons, cyber threats, artificial intelligence, and a nuclear architecture that is eroding faster than it can be repaired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of international relations, military history, arms control, national security, and foreign policy, \u003ci\u003eThe Atomic Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e offers a clear-eyed account of how the nuclear order actually works-and why a system built on permanent exception cannot deliver lasting peace.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dexter Dow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798251311310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Dexter Dow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997532598527,"sku":"9798251311310","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-atomic-privilege-dexter-dow-9798251311310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}