The Politics of Nuclear Weapons: New, Updated and Completely Revised

By Andrew Futter

Book Overview

​1. Introduction: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons.

2. What are Nuclear Weapons and Why Are They So Powerful?.

3. Testing, Authorising and Delivering Nuclear Weapons.

4. Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Ages.

5. The Nuclear Revolution, Nuclear Strategy and Nuclear War.

6. Vertical proliferation challenges.

7. Horizontal Proliferation Challenges: The Nuclear Outliers.

8. Managing Nuclear Threats: Structures of Global Nuclear Governance.

9. Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors.

10. Nuclear Disarmament.

11. Future Nuclear Challenges.

12. Conclusion: Surviving our Nuclear Future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030487369
• ISBN13: 9783030487362
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"