Abstract The United States has gone to extraordinary lengths since the beginning of the
nuclear age to inhibit—that is, to slow, halt, and reverse—the spread of nuclear weapons …

For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the
United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to …

Research on nuclear security has gone quantitative. Rapid growth in empirical approaches
to the consequences of nuclear weapons in recent years promises to settle some …

This paper argues that existing quantitative studies mistakenly assume that all nuclear states
can impose nuclear destruction on opponents by simply distinguishing nuclear states from …

Abstract Did the Cold War of the 1980s nearly turn hot? Much has been made of the
November 1983 Able Archer 83 command-post exercise, which is often described as having …

Why do countries deploy nuclear weapons abroad? Since 1945, more than twenty states
have hosted foreign nuclear weapons on their territory, and five countries continue to do so …

The nuclear competition school, an emerging theoretical perspective on the political effect of
nuclear weapons, argues that a favorable nuclear balance can significantly reduce one's …

This paper revisits the latest statistical evidence for the nuclear emboldenment thesis—
nuclear-armed states are more likely to initiate military aggression than non-nuclear states …

This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review
our understanding of the Cuban missile crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key …

According to a widespread conventional wisdom, there is a link between US nuclear
weapons and nuclear proliferation and, therefore, in order to prevent the spread of nuclear …