Sources Nukes

Question 1

Source 1 Waltz

Answer 1

Source 1: WALTZ (1981) Nuclear weapons increase International stability, enforce caution, restraint as using the nukes will result in MAD.

Question 2

Source 2 Schelling

Answer 2

Source 2: Schelling (1996) nuclear weapons are not only physically destructive in nature they can be used for political bargaining and psychological influence.

Question 3

Source 3 Tannenwald

Answer 3

Source 3: TANNENWALD (1999) argues that the development of the nuclear taboo challenges the realist view that strategy is why there is nuclear restraint.

Question 4

Source 4 Price

Answer 4

Source 4: PRICE (1995) supports Tannenwald as the development of a norm can garner strength over time and become very embedded in societal beliefs

Question 5

Source 5 Byers

Answer 5

Source 5: BYERS (2005) there is an inherent weakness to international legal regimes for powerful states, if a matter is important to a country they can be selective in their adherence to international law.

Question 6

Source 6 Joyner

Answer 6

Source 6: Joyner (2009) NPT is asymmetrical as it legitimises the possession of nuclear weapons for a select few powerful countries while prohibiting other countries from acquiring them