It's been 40 years since the French sunk the Rainbow Warrior. They wanted to stop the protests against nuclear testing at ...

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

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 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 ...

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

The manifest double standard in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime might incentivise self-help nuclear ...

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 ...

But beginning in the late 1940s, with the dawn of the nuclear age, strategists such as Schelling, Bernard Brodie, and Albert Wohlstetter began to formulate the bases of deterrence theory. The ...

5) When the shoe was on the other foot, the United States itself was not deterred by “minimum deterrence.” In the 1950s through early 1960s, when the current situation was reversed, and Russia ...

Nonetheless, proponents of deterrence theory generally draw on one primary argument: its efficacy as a war-prevention mechanism. A notable author in the field, Kenneth Waltz, argues that nuclear ...

10 Reasons Why Minimum Nuclear Deterrence Is A Bad Idea. November 27, 2024. By: Ben ... The best that the advocates of minimum deterrence can say for their policy is that it is an unproven theory.

By demonstrating that psychologically potent, non-nuclear weapons are possible, China’s test begins to erode the monopoly nuclear arms have held over credible deterrence.