The politics of nuclear weapons

Praise for the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Contents
List of Tables
1: Introduction: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
	General Introduction
	Central Aims and Pedagogical Features
	Outline of the Book
2: What Are Nuclear Weapons and Why Are They So Powerful?
	Nuclear Science: Uranium, Plutonium and Nuclear Fission
	The Genesis of the Bomb: From the Manhattan Project to the Trinity Test
	Fat Man and Little Boy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
	Atom Bombs and Hydrogen Bombs: Assessing Destructive Capacity
3: Testing, Authorising and Delivering Nuclear Weapons
	Atomic Testing
	Radiation, Fallout and Contamination
	Defining and Delivering Nuclear Weapons
	Current Nuclear Forces and the Nuclear Firing Chain
4: Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Ages
	Choosing to Build or nor to Build the Bomb
	Vertical and Horizontal Proliferation
	The Concept of Nuclear Ages
	The Nuclear Proliferation Debate: Optimists and Pessimists
	Nuclear Latency and Virtual Nuclear Arsenals
5: The Nuclear Revolution, Nuclear Strategy and Nuclear War
	The Nuclear Revolution, Nuclear Deterrence and the Security Dilemma
	Mutual Assured Destruction and Strategic Stability
	Nuclear Posture and Nuclear Targeting
	Nuclear Command and Control
	Escalation, Brinkmanship, Near Misses and Nuclear War
6: Vertical Proliferation Challenges
	The Legal Commitment to Disarmament
	The United States and Nuclear Primacy
	Russia and Great Power Status
	The United Kingdom, Trident and the Letter of Last Resort
	France and the Force de Dissuasion
	China and Minimum Deterrence
7: Horizontal Proliferation Challenges: The Nuclear Outliers
	Israel and Nuclear Opacity
	India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Challenge in South Asia
	Managing a Nuclear-Armed North Korea
	Future Trajectories in the Iranian Nuclear Standoff
8: Managing Nuclear Threats: Structures of Global Nuclear Governance
	Preventing: The International Non-Proliferation Regime
	Compelling: Sanctions, Coercion and the Use of Force
	Limiting: Negotiating Nuclear Arms Control
	Defending: Active and Passive Defences
	Assuring: Extended Nuclear Deterrence
9: Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors
	Illicit Nuclear Trade and the A. Q. Khan Nuclear Network
	What is Nuclear Terrorism?
	How Might Terrorists Get a Nuclear Device or Cause a Nuclear/Radiological Disaster?
	Securing Against Non-State Actor Nuclear Threats
10: Nuclear Disarmament
	The Nuclear Disarmament Movement
	Legal, Critical and Feminist Approaches to Nuclear Disarmament
	States That Have Given up the Bomb
	The Spread of Nuclear Weapon Free-Zones (NWFZ)
	The Global Zero Agenda and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
11: Future Nuclear Challenges
	The Demand for Nuclear Energy and the Spread of Civilian Nuclear Power
	Maintaining the Nuclear Taboo and the Norm of Non-Nuclear Use
	Emerging, Disruptive Technology and Strategic Non-Nuclear Weapons
12: Conclusion: Surviving our Nuclear Future
Appendices
	Appendix A: Nuclear Weapons Timeline
	Appendix B: Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
	Appendix C: List of States with Civilian Nuclear Power Capability1
	Appendix D: Nuclear Weapons in Fiction, Films and T.V.
		Fiction
		Non-Fiction
	Appendix E: Nuclear Weapons in Numbers
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Index