This book investigates the UK's nuclear weapon policy, focusing in
particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain
the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain
nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of
course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons
represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to
unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear
weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on
the processes through which governments produce and maintain
country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession
of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear
regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the
UK's nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it
documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to
sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British
politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the
value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.
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