Nuclear weapons and intergenerational exploitation

Nuclear weapons’ defenders claim that they lower the risk of war, at the price of devastation if war breaks out. But sooner or later, on a realist analysis, catastrophic nuclear war is almost sure to come. Nuclear deterrence thus buys us a better chance of dying in bed, while each post-holocaust gen...

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Main Author: Rendall, Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1382/
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1382/2/Rendall_Nukes_and_IE.pdf