Strategic Nonfuel Minerals and Western Security

By Rocco Michael Paone

In this study, six strategic nonfuel minerals manganese, cobalt, chromium, platinum group metals, and bauxite/alumina are studied for: their critical relationship to the industrial and military power of the United States and the nations of the Western Alliance; effect of cut-off of these minerals; requirement of research and development in endeavoring to discover substitutes for these minerals; need for effective stockpiling of strategic nonfuel minerals; and analysis of destabilization factor in major sources of supply.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819184691
• ISBN13: 9780819184696
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.