Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most
strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence
- using nuclear threats to prevent attacks against the nation's
territory and interests. But an often overlooked question is
whether nuclear threats can also coerce adversaries to relinquish
possessions or change their behavior. Can nuclear weapons be used
to blackmail other countries? The prevailing wisdom is that nuclear
weapons are useful for coercion, but this book shows that this view
is badly misguided. Nuclear weapons are useful mainly for
deterrence and self-defense, not for coercion. The authors evaluate
the role of nuclear weapons in several foreign policy contexts and
present a trove of new quantitative and historical evidence that
nuclear weapons do not help countries achieve better results in
coercive diplomacy. The evidence is clear: the benefits of
possessing nuclear weapons are almost exclusively defensive, not
offensive.
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