LEADER 03486oam 2200769I 450 001 9910820105503321 005 20240516202316.0 010 $a1-136-59463-9 010 $a1-283-46199-4 010 $a9786613461995 010 $a0-203-23912-1 010 $a1-136-59464-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203239124 035 $a(CKB)2670000000161220 035 $a(EBL)958748 035 $a(OCoLC)798530423 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678653 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11930439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678653 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10727679 035 $a(PQKB)11590627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC958748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL958748 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10534987 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL346199 035 $a(OCoLC)782917788 035 $a(OCoLC)720261359 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139134 035 $a(PPN)197324568 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000161220 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA perpetual menace $enuclear weapons and international order /$fWilliam Walker 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge global security studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-42106-3 311 $a0-415-42105-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 327 $a7 Back to nuclear disarmament, arms control and the NPT's invigoration8 Heading for the rocks?; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aWritten by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction.This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of new sciences, technologies and administrative capabilities greatly expanded states' abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to n 410 0$aRoutledge global security studies. 517 3 $aNuclear weapons and international order 606 $aNuclear arms control 606 $aNuclear weapons$xGovernment policy 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aWorld politics$y21st century 615 0$aNuclear arms control. 615 0$aNuclear weapons$xGovernment policy. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a327.1/747 700 $aWalker$b William$f1946-,$01617093 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820105503321 996 $aA perpetual menace$93948128 997 $aUNINA