Nuclear Strategy
In: Contemporary Security and Strategy, S. 201-221
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In: Contemporary Security and Strategy, S. 201-221
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 50, Heft 5, S. 115-140
ISSN: 1468-2699
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 50, Heft 5, S. 115-140
ISSN: 0039-6338
Washington's option for the first-use of nuclear weapons, and its connected stance on 'negative security assurances', is largely based on the idea these weapons serve a wider purpose than deterring nuclear attack. During the Cold War this wider purpose was mostly seen as deterring a Soviet conventional invasion of Western Europe; today, this wider purpose is less clear and less defined or constrained by strategic logic. The idea of 'calculated ambiguity' has been used to explain the situation, but it is inadequate. It fails to capture the way the controversy surrounding the first-use option occupies the intersection of planning for nuclear war, putative US national interests, arms control, contrasting conceptions of world order, and foreigners' perceptions of the United States. (Survival / SWP)
World Affairs Online
In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 403-404
ISSN: 1035-7718
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 610-611
ISSN: 1036-1146
In: Interdisciplinary Peace Research, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 108-120
In: Interdisciplinary Peace Research, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 94-112
In: Australian outlook: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 188-192
In: Australian outlook: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 49-64