Nuclear reason: at the limits of strategy /
BURKE Anthony
Nuclear reason: at the limits of strategy / Anthony Burke. - 2009
Argues that nuclear weapons strategic thinking is in fact not rational. Applauds President Obama's call for new international efforts to reduce and eventually remove nuclear weapons from global security. Suggests that progress will require key states to "acknowledge the fundamental impossibility of nuclear strategy as a system of reason", and identifies the growing conflation of nuclear and conventional conflict and the danger of nuclear terrorism as powerful incentives to make nuclear disarmament a reality.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NUCLEAR STRATEGY
DISARMAMENT
GLOBAL SECURITY
Nuclear reason: at the limits of strategy / Anthony Burke. - 2009
Argues that nuclear weapons strategic thinking is in fact not rational. Applauds President Obama's call for new international efforts to reduce and eventually remove nuclear weapons from global security. Suggests that progress will require key states to "acknowledge the fundamental impossibility of nuclear strategy as a system of reason", and identifies the growing conflation of nuclear and conventional conflict and the danger of nuclear terrorism as powerful incentives to make nuclear disarmament a reality.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NUCLEAR STRATEGY
DISARMAMENT
GLOBAL SECURITY