The Alert Collector: Key Sources of Multinational Data on Conventional and Nuclear Armaments
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.1.6835Abstract
I am pleased to offer this column on sources of conventional and nuclear armaments. Author David Lincove has taken a very complicated research topic and provided clear and concise descriptions of where to find data and other types of information. Many of the items in his column are web-only resources that would make a fine addition to subject guides in the military sciences, peace studies, political science, international relations, and more.—Editor
References
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