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Credible Nuclear Security Commitments Can Backfire: Explaining Domestic Support for Nuclear Weapons Acquisition in South Korea

, 2020
How does the alliance between a client state and its nuclear ally influence support for proliferation in the client? Conventional wisdom suggests that when nuclear security guarantees are not credible, support for proliferation will be high, since a ...
Lauren Sukin
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Still Taboo? Citizens’ Attitudes toward the Use of Nuclear Weapons

, 2020
How robust is the “nuclear taboo”—the belief that it is wrong to use nuclear weapons—and can it be strengthened? In a series of experimental surveys, we investigate two mechanisms theorized to support the nuclear nonuse norm.
L. Koch, M. Wells
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Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Weapon Regimes

2021
Abstract This chapter clarifies the content and operation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which works to ensure the peaceful use of nuclear energy. It examines the content and status of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, including the concomitant situation in Iran.
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A World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Transforming Terror, 2019
nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage—to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to ...
George P. Shultz, W. Perry, H. Kissinger, Sam Nunn   +3 more
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS

2017
This chapter is also devoted to examples of weapons design, this time in regard to nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. The author begins, however, with a more detailed examination of deterrence, specifically nuclear deterrence. He discusses the Manhattan Project, the design of thermonuclear weapons, and ballistic missiles.
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Nuclear Weapons

The World's Worst Problems, 2019
Walter Dodds
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

, 2019
This Commentary offers detailed background and analysis of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted at the UN Headquarters in New York in July 2017.
Stuart Casey-Maslen
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Nuclear Weapons

2022
A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture. Although the world's attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists.
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Negotiating the UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and the role of ICAN

The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2018
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is historic not only in its substance but in the process of its development. It was led by states free from nuclear weapons; based on humanitarian evidence and imperatives; involved civil society ...
Tilman A. Ruff
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How durable is the nuclear weapons taboo?

The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2018
The nuclear weapons taboo is considered one of the strongest norms in international politics. A prohibition against using nuclear weapons has seemingly shaped state behavior for nearly seven decades and, according to some observers, made nuclear use ...
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, Keir A. Lieber
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