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Nuclear Abolition: A Bridge Too Far?

2017
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Nuclear Abolition: A Dangerous Illusion

Orbis, 2008
Abstract A rising and influential tide of opinion is pressing for the United States to take major steps towards actually realizing “a world without nuclear weapons,” including by taking steps towards dismantling its nuclear arsenal. This article argues that a world without nuclear weapons, and particularly American nuclear weapons, is not desirable ...
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12 The Abolition of Nuclear Armouries?

2009
Abstract This chapter looks at the idea of abolishing all nuclear armouries, observing that both extremes of debate about this often oversimplify the issues, but that the NPT-recognized nuclear-weapon possessor states have all in the past undertaken to accept abolition as an ultimate goal.
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Disarmament Revisited: Is Nuclear Abolition Possible?

Journal of Strategic Studies, 2012
Lawrence S. Wittner, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Pp.254. $55, HB. ISBN 978-0-804-75631-0.
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Nuclear abolition from Baruch to the ban

2019
[...] The remainder of this chapter is divided into three. In the first section, I discuss therelationship between nuclear weapons and peace, assessing the validity of the ‘nuclearpeace hypothesis’ and the claim that nuclear arms control and disarmament can only bepursued once favourable international security conditions are in place. In the secondpart,
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The abolition of extended nuclear deterrence in Northeast Asia

Pacifica Review: Peace, Security & Global Change, 1997
Abstract This article critically assesses the future of policies of extended nuclear deterrence in Northeast Asia. The article questions the relevance of Cold War nuclear deterrence policies in the post‐Cold War world, focusing on the obsolescence of past theoretical and historical justifications of such policies given fundamental changes in both ...
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Nuclear Abolition or Nuclear Umbrella? Choices and Contradictions in US Proposals

2017
This chapter discusses military strategy in a world beyond deterrence, analysing the choices and contradictions in US proposals about nuclear abolition and its commitments to extended deterrence. In the analysis, strong emphasis is placed on the normative context for nuclear disarmament, which would greatly benefit from an explicit and unqualified ...
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Japan as a ‘Nuclear Disarmament State’: Its Global Initiative for Nuclear Abolition

2020
This chapter examines Japan’s nuclear identity as a ‘nuclear disarmament state’, which has contributed to the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime. As a case study, it focuses on the ‘International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament’ (ICNND) established by the support of the Japanese and Australian governments in
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Nuclear weapons: the final pandemic – preventing proliferation and achieving abolition

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2008
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War held a joint meeting with the Catastrophes and Conflict Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 3 and 4 October 2007.
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The role of non-nuclear-weapon states to advance the abolition of nuclear weapons

2016
It is often bemoaned that the role of non-nuclear-weapon States in creating a world without nuclear weapons is limited, as the onus to disarm seems to rely almost exclusively on the nuclear “haves”—the five recognized nuclear-weapon States that hold permanent seats in the Security Council.
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