How dawn turned into dusk: Scoping and closing possible nuclear futures after the Cold War
(2024) In Journal of Strategic Studies- Abstract
- How was the scope of nuclear weapons policy change immediately after the Cold War determined? Nuclear learning and worst-case thinking are common but not satisfactory answers. On the basis of primary sources in multiple languages, we posit that a particular temporalization of nuclear events in the beginning of the 1990s took place: nonproliferation timescaping. The Iraqi case of opaque proliferation was treated as the harbinger of future nuclear danger, while the breakup of the nuclear-armed USSR was depicted as not repeatable or not to worry about, and South African nuclear disarmament was reframed as a non-proliferation success.
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- author
- Pelopidas, Benoît ; Taha, Hebatalla LU and Tom, Vaughan
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- Nuclear disarmament, nuclear proliferation, South Africa, Iraq, futures
- in
- Journal of Strategic Studies
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85181240472
- ISSN
- 0140-2390
- DOI
- 10.1080/01402390.2023.2290441
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- d12f83aa-0566-4e6b-8731-fc6428e13968
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- 2024-01-09 22:27:17
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