03466oam 2200757I 450 991078996140332120220502194802.01-136-59463-91-283-46199-497866134619950-203-23912-11-136-59464-710.4324/9780203239124(CKB)2670000000161220(EBL)958748(OCoLC)798530423(SSID)ssj0000678653(PQKBManifestationID)11930439(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678653(PQKBWorkID)10727679(PQKB)11590627(MiAaPQ)EBC958748(Au-PeEL)EBL958748(CaPaEBR)ebr10534987(CaONFJC)MIL346199(OCoLC)782917788(OCoLC)720261359(FINmELB)ELB139134(PPN)197324568(EXLCZ)99267000000016122020180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA perpetual menace nuclear weapons and international order /William WalkerAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (257 p.)Routledge global security studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-42106-3 0-415-42105-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1997-20077 Back to nuclear disarmament, arms control and the NPT's invigoration8 Heading for the rocks?; Notes; Bibliography; IndexWritten 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 nRoutledge global security studies.Nuclear weapons and international orderNuclear arms controlNuclear weaponsGovernment policySecurity, InternationalWorld politics21st centuryNuclear arms control.Nuclear weaponsGovernment policy.Security, International.World politics327.1/747Walker William1946-,1505882MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789961403321A perpetual menace3735833UNINA