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Stable Nuclear Zero: The Vision and its Implications for Disarmament Policy book cover

1st Edition

Stable Nuclear Zero The Vision and its Implications for Disarmament Policy

Edited By Sverre Lodgaard Copyright 2017
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume examines the conditions necessary for a stable nuclear-weapons-free world and the implications for nuclear disarmament policy. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a road map to nuclear zero, but it is a rudimentary one and it says nothing about the kind of zero to aim for. Preferably, this would be a world where the inhibitions against reversal are strong enough to make it... Read more

Introduction, Sverre Loodgaard and Satoko Takahashi 

PART I: A Nuclear Weapon Free World: Desirable? Feasible?

1. A world without nuclear weapons?, Thomas C. Schelling

2. Making NWFW Attractive, Stable and Sustainable, Manpreet Sethi

3. Icon Off the Mark, Harald Müller

4. Toward a Rigorous Comparison of a Pre-Nuclear and a Post-Nuclear World, Nikolai Sokov 

PART II: The Requirements and Paths to Stable Nuclear Zero

5. Out of the Box: Nuclear disarmament and Cultural Change, Harald Müller 

6. Verification requirements, Andreas Persbo

7. Missile Defence as an Alternative to Nuclear Deterrence?, Tom Sauer

8. Nuclear Disarmament: A Chinese View, Jingdong Yuan

9. Stable at Zero: Deterrence and verification: Deterrence and Verification, Patricia Lewis

PART III: Summary and Conclusions

10. The Vision and its Implications for Disarmament Policy, Sverre Lodgaard

Biography

Sverre Lodgaard is Senior Research fellow and former Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He is author of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of Nuclear Proliferation and International Security (with Bremer Maerli, Routledge, 2007).

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