Nuclear Weapons and Global Integration

G van Benthem Van Den Bergh

Nuclear Weapons and Global Integration

G van Benthem Van Den Bergh

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Abstract

An examination of the implications of the nuclear revolution for the development of great power rivalry and international relations in general. It employs a long term perspective for that purpose leading to the conclusion that if the nuclear revolution was more realistically understood by the rivaling great powers, a global pacification regime could develop as a rudimentary equivalent to the monopoly of violence at the state level. That requires the fading away of prenuclear thinking about strategy and weapons procurement and attempts to maintain superiority such as SDI. Nuclear arsenals should be reduced and their composition made safer in order to stabilize the reciprocal restraint that developed especially after the Cuban missile crisis.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Publication status	Published - 1988
Externally published	Yes

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