Is there a future for nuclear weapons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4030452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Mccgwire (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-228 |
| Publication date | 1994-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2625231 |
| OpenAlex | W2316398310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
To address this question, Michael MccGwire postulates two futures: a low-salience nuclear (LSN) world, as advocated by Michael Quinlan in his article; and a nuclear-weapons-free world. MccGwire bases his comparative assessment on the five tasks that Quinlan indentified as requiring a continuing Western nuclear capability and concludes that for only one of the five are nuclear weapons essential, and that one would lapse in an NWF world. Widening the argument to include other requirements, risks and opportunities, the explicit goal of an NWF world is shown to offer considerably short-and long-term advantage. Achievable in principle, the major obstacle is a mind-set shaped by the Cold War, which inhibits Western officialdom from addressing the question seriously
Argument (complex analysis) · Economics · Free world · Futures contract · Law and economics · Nuclear weapon · Obstacle · Operations research · Political economy · Political science · Salience (neuroscience) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
Nuclearism, human rights and constructions of security (part 1)
Surveying the nuclear future
Rites, « angles morts » et typologie argumentative de la dissuasion nucléaire
What vision for the nuclear future
Beliefs, culture, proliferation and use of Nuclear Weapons
The international system and the use of weapons of mass destruction
Great Powers, Vital Interests and Nuclear Weapons
Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2013 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |