LEADER 03879nam 22006135 450 001 9910495236403321 005 20240724110308.0 010 $a9783030675769 010 $a3030675769 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-67576-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011989861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6683157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6683157 035 $a(PPN)259461091 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-67576-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011989861 100 $a20210723d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerforming Nuclear Weapons $eHow Britain Made Trident Make Sense /$fby Paul Beaumont 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (250 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in International Relations,$x2946-2681 311 08$a9783030675752 311 08$a3030675750 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: Problematizing the Maintenance of Nuclear Weapons -- Chapter 2. Explaining Britain's Bomb -- Chapter 3. Nuclear Regimes of Truth -- Chapter 4. Constructing the Nuclear Weapon Problem -- Chapter 5. Blair's Nuclear Regime of Truth -- Chapter 6. Thatcher's Nuclear Regime of Truth -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Breaking Down Britain's Nuclear Regime of Truth & Putting it Back Together Again. 330 $aThis book investigates the UK's nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on the processes through which governments produce and maintain country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the UK's nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons. Paul Beaumont is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations/International Environmental Studies and Development from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He has published peer-reviewed articles in Third World Quarterly, Global Affairs, and New Perspectives, policy-orientated research on behalf of the International Law and Policy Institute, and several op-eds in Klassekampen and Aftenposten. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in International Relations,$x2946-2681 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aPolitics and war 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aInternational Relations Theory 606 $aMilitary and Defence Studies 606 $aInternational Security Studies 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aPolitics and war. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 14$aInternational Relations Theory. 615 24$aMilitary and Defence Studies. 615 24$aInternational Security Studies. 676 $a355.033541 676 $a355.02170941 700 $aBeaumont$b Paul David$01243304 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495236403321 996 $aPerforming nuclear weapons$92883855 997 $aUNINA