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Extended Deterrence and Extended Nuclear Deterrence in a Pandemic World

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
The COVID19 pandemic has reinforced two of the main contributing factors to the current age of disruption: the tendency of national leaders to act unilaterally; and the global decline in trust.
Allan Behm
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Deemphasizing Nuclear Weapons in Nuclear Deterrence: The Case for Conventional Counterforce

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
This article advances a strategic theory on the benefits of integrated deterrence for the US alliance network in East Asia. After assessing the role of nuclear weapons in the region and tracing the evolution of US strategic thought on nuclear policy in ...
Samuel Seitz, Lauren Sukin
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THE MYTH OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE [PDF]

Nonproliferation Review, 2008
Nuclear deterrence is sometimes treated as a known quantity—a definite thing that keeps us safe and ensures our security. It has also often been used as a justification for possessing nuclear weapons. Nuclear deterrence, however, is based on an unexamined notion: the belief that the threat to destroy cities provides decisive leverage. An examination of
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A study on the development and implications of low-yield nuclear weapons, focusing on deterrence theory

선진국방연구, 2021
This study aims to examine the development status and technical characteristics of low-yield nuclear weapons initiated by the Trump administration, predict the development trend in the Biden administration, analyze strategic implications that have ...
Sungjoon Moon
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Mission Unaccounted: Japan’s Shift of Role in US Extended Nuclear Deterrence

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
Japan’s security policy appears to be undergoing a qualitative change. Policymakers, however, have not provided sufficient explanation to the nation regarding such a shift. What is the qualitative change in Japan’s security policy premised on US extended
Kimiaki Kawai
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Analysis of Defense Deterrence in the National Security Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Nuclear Case [PDF]

علوم و فنون نظامی, 2022
Deterrence is one of the strategic concepts that means preventing the occurrence of threatening actions by threatening and displaying power and is used in both the field of strategy and diplomacy.
Hossein Mahdian, Jalal Torkashvand, Kamel Moniri   +2 more
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Plus Ça Change? Prospects of a Nuclear Deterrence Multipolarity in Southern Asia

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
Some scholars assess that Southern Asia comprises a nuclear chain or a deterrence trilemma. Although the region is home to three states with nuclear weapons, there is only one clear nuclear deterrence dyad.
Toby Dalton
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Axiomatic approach to ensuring nuclear safety and nuclear deterrence in the interests of the Russian Arctic region sustainable development

Вестник университета, 2023
The article studies two closely related modern problems such as nuclear deterrence and nuclear security. The aim of the study is to develop and substantiate an Axiom for the scientific field of knowledge about coupled dynamic assessments of nuclear ...
S. P. Vishnyakova, Ya. D. Vishnyakov
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Is nuclear deterrence superior to conventional deterrence?

Journal of Student Research, 2023
After the development of the atomic and hydrogen weapons, nuclear deterrence has been commonly viewed as the ultimate form of deterrence among civilians and politicians. Throughout the Cold War and even in the present, various nations strived to initiate their nuclear weapons program to enhance national security and presence in international affairs ...
Sung Hoon Song, Greg Weiss
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Japan’s Reliance on US Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Legality of Use Matters Today

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
Japan declares in its security policy that US extended nuclear deterrence is “essential”. However, policymakers do not seem to have provided sufficient explanation of the legality and the implications of the use of nuclear weapons, even if they argue ...
Kimiaki Kawai
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