Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation ...

Strategic Studies Quarterly Vol. 12, No. 4, WINTER 2018 How Does Nuclear Deterrence Differ from ... Nuclear and conventional deterrence are in fact quite different in terms of theory, practice, and ...

Abstract Whether the spread of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century should be feared or welcomed has been the subject of considerable debate. Much of this debate presumes the explanatory and ...

Will nuclear deterrence and strategic stability ... The ‘madman’ formulation in deterrence theory, predicated on uncertainty and irrationality, was postulated by American academics and ...

This project would reconsider deterrence and look at the role of nuclear weapons in deterring different kinds of attacks and ask where deterrence still makes sense as a part of U.S. defense strategy ...

Deterrence theory is also seen by some as inconsistent ... impossible" to effectively address the problems facing China's nuclear deterrence strategy. Jiang said that while there were some policy ...

Despite the rapid growth and modernization of Russian and Chinese nuclear forces ... it is an unproven theory. We in the opposite camp disagree: we say that minimum deterrence has been proven ...

Despite the claims of nuclear-armed states, it was the taboo that the survivors of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped to establish and sustain, not the flawed theory of nuclear deterrence, ...

It also called for an end to rationalizing nuclear deterrence theory, arguing that the policy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) threatened national security and increased the risk that nuclear ...

Instead of insisting that such weapons are necessary to deter potential adversaries, members of the nuclear club should listen to the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks and their call for ...

Japan and the United States held their first ministerial meeting on extended deterrence to underline the robustness of the U.S. nuclear umbrella amid growing security challenges from China ...