The Tradition Of Non Use Of Nuclear Weapons

Author : T.V. Paul
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804771009

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The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons by T.V. Paul Pdf

Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view that use would have a catastrophic impact on humankind, the environment, and the reputation of the user. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the nuclear policies of the U.S., Russia, China, the UK, France, India, Israel, and Pakistan and assesses the contributions of these states to the rise and persistence of the tradition of nuclear non-use. It examines the influence of the tradition on the behavior of nuclear and non-nuclear states in crises and wars, and explores the tradition's implications for nuclear non-proliferation regimes, deterrence theory, and policy. And it concludes by discussing the future of the tradition in the current global security environment.

Author : Nina Tannenwald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521524288

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The Nuclear Taboo by Nina Tannenwald Pdf

Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' in favour of what she calls a nuclear taboo - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing on newly released archival sources, Tannenwald traces the rise of the nuclear taboo, the forces that produced it, and its influence, particularly on US leaders. She analyzes four critical instances where US leaders considered using nuclear weapons (Japan 1945, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War 1991) and examines how the nuclear taboo has repeatedly dissuaded US and other world leaders from resorting to these 'ultimate weapons'. Through a systematic analysis, Tannenwald challenges conventional conceptions of deterrence and offers a compelling argument on the moral bases of nuclear restraint as well as an important insight into how nuclear war can be avoided in the future.

Author : Gar Alperovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 067106150X

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Atomic Diplomacy by Gar Alperovitz Pdf

Author : Vipin Narang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691172620

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Seeking the Bomb by Vipin Narang Pdf

The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics. Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, Vipin Narang develops an original typology of proliferation strategies—hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. Narang delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program. As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, Seeking the Bomb explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation.

Author : Gro Nystuen,Stuart Casey-Maslen,Annie Golden Bersagel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139992749

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Nuclear Weapons under International Law by Gro Nystuen,Stuart Casey-Maslen,Annie Golden Bersagel Pdf

Nuclear Weapons under International Law is a comprehensive treatment of nuclear weapons under key international law regimes. It critically reviews international law governing nuclear weapons with regard to the inter-state use of force, international humanitarian law, human rights law, disarmament law, and environmental law, and discusses where relevant the International Court of Justice's 1996 Advisory Opinion. Unique in its approach, it draws upon contributions from expert legal scholars and international law practitioners who have worked with conventional and non-conventional arms control and disarmament issues. As a result, this book embraces academic consideration of legal questions within the context of broader political debates about the status of nuclear weapons under international law.

Author : T.V. Paul
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804761314

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The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons by T.V. Paul Pdf

An exploration of the rise, persistence, and impact of the tradition of non-use of nuclear weapons followed by nuclear powers for well over sixty years.

Author : Tom Sauer,Jorg Kustermans,Barbara Segaert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030266882

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Non-Nuclear Peace by Tom Sauer,Jorg Kustermans,Barbara Segaert Pdf

This volume examines the possibility of a world without nuclear weapons. It starts from the observation that, although nuclear deterrence has long been dominant in debates about war and peace, recent events show that ridicule and stigmatization of nuclear weapons and their possessors is on the rise. The idea of non-nuclear peace has been around since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, but it may be staging a return. The first part reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace, both past and present, with a particular emphasis on technology. The second part focuses on the most revolutionary change since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, namely the Humanitarian Initiative and the resulting Nuclear Ban Treaty (2017), which allows imagining non-nuclear peace anew. The third and last part explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons. If non-nuclear peace advocates want to convince skeptics, they have to come up with practical solutions in the realm of global governance or world government.

Author : Frank Sauer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137533746

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Atomic Anxiety by Frank Sauer Pdf

With the concept of 'Atomic Anxiety', this book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important and longstanding puzzles of international politics: the non-use of U.S. nuclear weapons. By focusing on the fear surrounding nuclear weapons, it explains why nuclear deterrence and the nuclear taboo are working at cross purposes in practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:951558504

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The Nuclear Taboo by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Atomic weapons
ISBN : UVA:X000317491

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Proposal for No First Use of Nuclear Weapons by Robert C. Tucker Pdf

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400868261

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The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis Pdf

This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300253481

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Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling Pdf

“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new introduction to the work shows how Schelling’s framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.

Author : Alex Wellerstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226833446

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Restricted Data by Alex Wellerstein Pdf

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. It was foreign to American science and American democracy—and potentially incompatible with both. From the beginning, this secrecy was controversial, and it was always contested. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global collaboration. If secrecy became the norm, how would science survive? Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author’s efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early twenty-first century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.

Author : Joseph Cirincione
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780231135108

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Bomb Scare by Joseph Cirincione Pdf

Presents a history of the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons, an analysis of the current crisis with Iran, and advice on what can be done to enforce arms control and ensure peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Author : Shlomo Aronson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791495346

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The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East by Shlomo Aronson Pdf

Based on research from an array of American, Arab, British, French, German, and Israeli sources, this book provides a nuclear history of the world's most explosive region. Most significantly, it gives an exposition of Israel's acquisition and political use, or nonuse, of nuclear weapons as a central factor of its foreign policy in the 1960-1991 period. In stressing the factor of nuclear weapons, the author highlights an often-neglected aspect of Israeli security policy. This is the first interpretation of the historical development of nuclear doctrine in the Middle East that assesses the strategic implications of opacity—Israel's use of suggestion, rather than open acknowledgment, that it possesses nuclear weapons. Aronson discusses the strategic thinking of Israel, the Arab countries, the U.S., the former Soviet Union, and other countries and connects Israeli strategies for war, peace, territories, and the political economy with the use of nuclear deterrence. The author approaches the development of Israeli doctrines on nuclear weapons and defense in general within a large matrix that includes the United States; Israeli perceptions of Arab history, culture, and psychology; and Israeli perceptions of Israel's own history, culture, and psychology. He also deals with Arab perceptions of Israel's nuclear program and with Arab and Iranian incentives to go nuclear. In addition, he discusses at length the importance of nuclear factors in the conduct of the Persian Gulf War and examines the implications of the decline of the former Soviet Union for arms control and peace in the Middle East.