Nuclear reason: at the limits of strategy / Anthony Burke.
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International Relations Vol 23 No 4, December 2009, pp.506-529 (33)Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Journal Article | Mindef Library & Info Centre Journals | NUCLEAR WEAPONS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 29628-1001 |
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.
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