Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and
international relations, this book examines the problem of order
arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction.
This central problem of international order has its origins in
the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of
new sciences, technologies and administrative capabilities greatly
expanded states abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of
total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the
invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to
nuclear weapons during the Cold War. It became more complex after
the end of the Cold War, as power structures shifted, new
insecurities emerged, prior ordering strategies were called into
question, and as technologies relevant to weapons of mass
destruction became more accessible to non-state actors as well as
states.
William Walker explores how this problem is conceived by
influential actors, how they have tried to fashion solutions in the
face of many predicaments, and why those solutions have been deemed
effective and ineffective, legitimate and illegitimate, in various
times and contexts.
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