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Roundtable 11-21 on Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy

August 3, 2020July 29, 2020 By James N. Miller, Heather Williams, Francis J. Gavin, Joshua Rovner

Nuclear weapons are fundamentally different from other military tools.  The technology is familiar and yet still exotic; the ability to split nuclei and fuse them together remains one of the most extraordinary technical milestones of the last century.  And the yields of nuclear explosions are orders of magnitude greater than those of conventional weapons, making…

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Article Review 138 on “The Sturdy Child vs. the Sword of Damocles: Nuclear Weapons and the Expected Cost of War.” 

May 13, 2020May 8, 2020 By Julianne Phillips

With the advent of nuclear weapons came the question of how their very existence changed the way we conduct and think about warfare.  Nearly seventy five years after their first (and, to date, only) use at the end of World War II, the question remains far from resolved, as nuclear ‘optimists’ and ‘pessimists’ continue to…

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Roundtable 11-15 on Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy

April 6, 2020December 24, 2020 By Robert Trager, Kyle Beardsley, Dan Reiter, Nina Tannenwald, Todd S. Sechser

Todd Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann’s book Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy provides a sustained case against the use of nuclear weapons as a tool for compelling actors to do something they would not otherwise want to do. In their reviews, three eminent scholars, Kyle Beardsley, Dan Reiter and Nina Tannenwald, are united in their praise,…

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Article Review 123 on “Conflict and Chaos on the Korean Peninsula: Can China’s Military Help Secure North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons.”

July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 By Terence Roehrig

Stability on the Korean Peninsula took a beating in 2017. The year began with Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s Address that declared North Korea had “entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of [an] intercontinental ballistic missile”[2] and President-elect Donald Trump tweeted in response, “it won’t happen.”[3] The subsequent twelve months witnessed North…

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Forum 21 on “Global Nuclear Order.” Diplomacy & Statecraft 29:1

June 21, 2019June 25, 2019 By Philipp C. Bleek, Michael Cohen, Anne I. Harrington, Nicola Leveringhaus, Francis J. Gavin, Joseph Siracusa

Nuclear strategy can be a difficult subject to study. In the end, our main preoccupation is understanding why there has not been a thermonuclear war, and what we can do to continue this streak. It is close to impossible to craft definite statements about an event that never happened. We have a strong hunch that…

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Review Essay 43 on Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons

October 11, 2018December 10, 2018 By Jacquelyn Schneider

Hacking the Bomb begins its narrative with WarGames—a 1980s sci-fi movie about a teenager who inadvertently almost starts nuclear war by hacking into a nuclear control program within a U.S. computer. This is a common vignette within the cyber literature (see, for example, the introductions of Fred Kaplan’s Dark Territory[2] as well as “Thermonuclear War”[3])…

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Article Review 91 on “Nuclear Beliefs: A Leader-Focused Theory of Counter-Proliferation.”

January 18, 2018January 13, 2018 By Tristan A. Volpe

In “Nuclear Beliefs: A Leader-Focused Theory of Counter-Proliferation,” Rachel Whitlark advances a new framework to explain why military force is rarely employed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. According to power transition theory, a nuclear weapons program should spark an intense security dilemma with a high risk of war as other nations consider using…

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Roundtable 9-22 on Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Get the Bomb

August 4, 2017December 19, 2017 By Vipin Narang, Andrew J. Coe, Jacques E.C. Hymans, Austin Long, Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer’s new book Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Get the Bomb should find itself on the shelf of any serious student of nuclear proliferation, international security, and the internal and external security dynamics of dictatorial regimes. It is by far the best history of Iraq’s and Libya’s failed attempts at acquiring…

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Policy Series: The Madman Myth: Trump and the Bomb

March 22, 2017June 30, 2018 By Todd S. Sechser, Matthew Fuhrmann

President Donald Trump has now assumed control over the nation’s arsenal of more than 4,000 nuclear weapons. What will he do with them? We do not yet know the Trump administration’s approach to nuclear strategy, but Trump has offered some clues to his mindset. He has denounced nuclear arms control, declaring that he would welcome…

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Policy Roundtable 1-2 on Brexit

October 2, 2016November 20, 2019 By Joshua Rovner, David Betz, David Blagden, Kathleen Burk, Maria Rost Rublee, Leslie Vinjamuri

When British voters chose to leave the European Union in a 23 June 2016 referendum, they unleashed an intense and ongoing national debate over the consequences. Not surprisingly, the debate has largely surrounded the economic, political, and social consequences of “Brexit.” Those in favour of leaving emphasized the benefits of independence from what they saw…

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