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Domestic Consensus and Nuclear Deterrence

The Adelphi Papers, 1983
Over the past eighteen months, a substantial breakdown has taken place in the domestic consensus on nuclear policies in Europe and the United States. In Europe, mass demonstrations have occurred against the deployment of new US cruise and Pershing II ballistic missiles. These include not only young protesters, ecologists, and other cause-adopters. Many
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Deterrence and nuclear terrorism

2023
Nuclear terrorism is a frightening prospect and, according to many, represents one of the gravest threats to the United States at present. In order to prevent the terrorist use of nuclear weapons against the American homeland, scholars and policymakers alike are exploring strategies and policies of deterrence.
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Nuclear Deterrence

Abstract This chapter considers the history of NATO nuclear deterrence and related issues of decision-making, arms control, and risk- and responsibility-sharing. The chapter takes note of the origins of US nuclear commitments to NATO Europe, nuclear-sharing arrangements, the development of British and French nuclear forces, and the role ...
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Nuclear Superiority or Mutually Assured Deterrence: The Development of the US Nuclear Deterrent

International Journal, 2005
The nuclear strategy of the United States originated in the uncertain and dangerous twilight period between the end of World War II and the start of what was later coined the Cold War. It was at this point that Washington began to formulate a coherent strategy, a lengthy and controversial endeavour due to the particular-some would say revolutionary ...
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Is Nuclear Deterrence Ethical?

Philosophy, 1986
We are morally perplexed about nuclear weapons. Popular debate oscillates tediously between an apparently impractical idealism which would have nothing to do with the things, and a military and political realism which insists that we have to use such means to attain our legitimate ends. The choice, it too often seems, is between laying down our nuclear
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Nuclear Deterrence by Bluff

Blackfriars, 1962
Probably very few people accept the ‘political’ arguments against British participation in the nuclear deterrent system; the arguments that British unilateral nuclear disarmament will encourage an Afro-Asian movement leading to multilateral disarmament, and that, whether or not the present Western deterrent is immoral, Britain is entitled to withdraw ...
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Nuclear deterrence

2012
Chris Hobbs, Matthew Harries
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Under the Umbrella: Nuclear Crises, Extended Deterrence, and Public Opinion

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2022
Jiyoung Ko, Stephen Herzog, David M Allison   +2 more
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Beyond deterrence: Uncertain stability in the nuclear era

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2023
Kyungkook Kang, Jacek Kugler
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US Extended Nuclear Deterrence in Europe and East Asia: A Comparative Analysis

Asian Affairs, 2022
Tom Sauer
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