TY  - BOOK
AU  - HAYNES Susan Turner
TI  - The power of prestige: explaining China's nuclear weapons decisions
PY  - 2020///
KW  - HYDROGEN BOMB
KW  - NEUTRON BOMB
KW  - CHINA
KW  - SECURITY
KW  - WEAPON
KW  - NUCLEAR WEAPONS
KW  - BALLISTIC MISSILES
N2  - The majority of the nuclear proliferation literature is dedicated to understanding why states acquire nuclear weapons. While this question remains important, it is also advantageous to push beyond this inquiry to ask what motivates a state's nuclear decisions after acquisition. Recent research indicates that a state's nuclear force structure is heavily influenced by its threat environment. But what explains decisions relating to specific nuclear weapon systems? If security is a sufficient explanatory variable, then why would a state pursue nuclear weapons with high development and production costs but relatively low security gains? Using China as a case study, this article explores the power of prestige in explaining such decisions
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14799855.2018.1472581
ER  -