| ID | 116651 |
| Title Proper | Why eliminate nuclear weapons? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Doyle, James E |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | On 5 April 2009 in Prague, US President Barack Obama asserted the United States' commitment to 'seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons'. He was adding his voice and the efforts of his administration to the growing number of world leaders, citizens and civil-society organisations seeking the elimination of such weapons.1 Banning the bomb has been a passionate and often popular crusade since its creation and first use, but in all that time it has never been a serious strategic objective for any state that possessed nuclear weapons.2 Why would a sitting US president take the political and strategic risk of declaring that progress towards this goal was a key element of America's national security policy? |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 55, No.1; Feb-Mar 2013: p.7-34 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 55, No.1; Feb-Mar 2013: p.7-34 |
| Key Words | United States ; Barack Obama ; Nuclear Weapons ; Peace ; Security ; Civil Society ; Deterrence Theory |