The Nuclear Taboo The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945

Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' in favour of what she calls a nuclear taboo - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing on new...

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1. Verfasser:	Tannenwald, Nina
Format:	E-Book Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 20.12.2007
Ausgabe:	1
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in international relations
Schlagworte:	Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons - Government policy - United States
ISBN:	9780521818865, 0521818869, 0521524288, 9780521524285
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
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