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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820105503321

Autore

Walker William <1946-, >

Titolo

A perpetual menace : nuclear weapons and international order / / William Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-59463-9

1-283-46199-4

9786613461995

0-203-23912-1

1-136-59464-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge global security studies

Disciplina

327.1/747

Soggetti

Nuclear arms control

Nuclear weapons - Government policy

Security, International

World politics - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Perpetual Menace Nuclear weapons and international order; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and table; Prologue: the Ship of Fools; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: the problems of nuclear order and their understanding; 2 The awakenings, 1939-46; 3 Sculpting an order out of disorder: nuclear weapons and the Cold War; 4 Two crises of nuclear order, 1973-86; 5 The international nuclear order's consolidation, 1986-97; 6 Into a second nuclear age? Shifting and expanding problems of nuclear order, 1997-2007

7 Back to nuclear disarmament, arms control and the NPT's invigoration8 Heading for the rocks?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction.This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of new sciences, technologies and administrative capabilities greatly expanded states'



abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to n