Nina Tannenwald

The Nuclear Taboo

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There has been no use of nuclear weapons since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nina Tannenwald argues that this was not inevitable, but that a tradition of non-use of nuclear weapons has grown up, a tradition that is not simply explained by theories of deterrence. This tradition is based on the feeling that nuclear weapons are not a legitimate weapon of war, a feeling which has grown stronger as nuclear arsenals have become ever more deadly. Tannenwald illustrates her argument by examining the nuclear experience of the United States since 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 913g
• ISBN-13: 9780521818865
• ISBN-10: 0521818869
• Artikelnr.: 21303424

Autorenporträt

Nina Tannenwald is associate research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the tradition of nuclear non-use; 2. Explaining non-use; 3. Hiroshima and the origins of the nuclear taboo; 4. The Korean War: the emerging taboo; 5. The rise of the nuclear taboo, 1953-1960; 6. Nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War; 7. Institutionalizing the taboo, 1960-1989; 8. The 1991 Gulf War; 9. The taboo in the post-Cold War world; 10. Conclusion: the prospects for the nuclear taboo.

Rezensionen

'At a time when the actual use of nuclear weapons is being contemplated as 'mini-nukes' or 'bunker-busters', Nina Tannenwald's book is a timely reminder of humanity's visceral recoiling from the use of the world's most destructive weapon.' Jayantha Dhanapala, Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs and former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the USA