According to the standard justification, nuclear weapons uniquely deter violence and serve as a foundation for global peace.

The balance of nuclear power is shifting fast. The US now faces the possibility of simultaneous threats from three ...

A February 2, 2022, article, “US defense to its workforce: Nuclear war can be won,” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, dabbles in political science, history, deterrence theory, and grand ...

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear ...

Nuclear deterrence theory, with its roots in the Cold War era, may not account for all eventualities in the 21st century. Researchers at Chatham House have worked with eight experts to produce this ...

The increasing polarisation of international politics indicates that the future will be characterised by an intensification of conflicts. And, as the tensions intensify between the world’s two largest ...

Nuclear deterrence is a myth. Nuclear deterrence involves a nation state maintaining a believable threat of retaliation to deter an adversary’s attack. This relies on demonstrations of the readiness ...

Trump 2.0 and the 'Madman Theory' of nuclear deterrence Being disruptive and provocative is part of the Donald Trump playbook. Therefore, his observations on Greenland and Panama Canal should not ...

The third nuclear age has forced strategic thinkers to confront the dilemma of nuclear deterrence anew, this time in a multipolar nuclear world. Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini ...

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima officials criticized growing support for nuclear weapons as a detterent resulting from uneasiness over Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions in the Koreas, commenting ...

Abstraction is a powerful mathematical technique that has influenced everything from quantum theories of gravity to nuclear deterrence theory. But has it gone too far? Skip to main content.