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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Implications for US National Security. [PDF]

, 2010
This article analyzes Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program and the characteristics of the environment in which the program is nested. These characteristics include Pakistan’s history of internal and external instability; nuclear saber rattling during ...
Tkacik, Michael
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Jurisprudence reasons for sanctity of construction and use of nuclear weapons in the deterrence strategy of Islam [PDF]

رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2021
Misunderstanding of theological basis for behavior of an Islamic State in strategic spheres, such as deterrence methods, is an effective factor on misconception of international actors to real strategic approach of that state. Therefore, misconception of
Reza Soleimani, Fatemeh Hoseini
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Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan [PDF]

, 2018
This paper explores how the Leviathan that projects power through nuclear arms exercises a unique nuclearized sovereignty. In the case of nuclear superpowers, this sovereignty extends to wielding the power to destroy human civilization as we know it ...
Amadae, S. M.
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Schelling, von Neumann, and the Event that Didn’t Occur [PDF]

, 2014
Thomas Schelling was recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as a pioneer in the application of game theory and rational choice analysis to problems of politics and international relations.
Field, Alexander J.
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Prospects for DPRK’s Nuclear Use Scenarios and Deterrence Measures of the US and ROK Alliance

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to develop cases for the DPRK’s use of nuclear weapons. As background, firstly, the deterrence and countermeasure strategies of the United States-ROK alliance in the face of the increasingly sophisticated DPRK’s nuclear ...
Sangkyu Lee
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Biological Threat Deterrence by Denial: Implications for Japan’s Nuclear Disarmament Vision

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Japan, a proponent of nuclear disarmament, is facing criticism for adopting “nuclear deterrence” as its foreseeable security policy without providing a clear strategy for transitioning away from it.
Kazuko Hikawa
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NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AND NUCLEAR INTIMIDATION IN RUSSIA’S POLICY

Стратегічна панорама, 2022
Nuclear weapons play a key role in Russia’s security thinking. Concepts of the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons by the Russian Federation include both doctrinally defined nuclear deterrence and doctrinally indefinite nuclear intimidation.
Oleksii Izhak
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Deterrence Misapplied: Challenges in Containing a Nuclear Iran [PDF]

, 2010
Argues against relying on deterrence against a nuclear Iran by analyzing problems with the disproportionate focus on Iran's current leadership in debates over deterrence strategies and considering the implications of various doctrines of ...
Frederick W. Kagan
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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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Towards A Better U.S. Nuclear Strategy

Journal of Strategic Security, 2014
The U.S. nuclear posture and the future role of nuclear deterrence is a topic that continues to be hotly debated. This situation will continue because of changes in the international security environment and the pressure to find reductions within the U.S.
John J. Klein
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