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The planned modernisation of the United States’ nuclear forces raises a number of national-security dilemmas that demand the nation’s full attention. Nuclear weapons can deter potential adversaries, but they also create the risk of a nuclear war that would destroy everything the United States seeks to protect. Maintaining too few nuclear weapons could create vulnerabilities, but building too many may lead to war by creating misperceptions of American intentions or consuming defence resources that are needed to address other urgent threats. Effective strategy therefore requires a balance of forces that can survive enemy attack and deliver devastating retaliation while promoting peaceful, stable relationships among states and minimising the chances of nuclear war, nuclear terrorism and further nuclear proliferation.
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150283
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In April 2009, barely three months into his first term, President Barack Obama warned the world that “if we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, then in some way we are admitting to ourselves that the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable.” These words and his pledge that “America will seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons” were delivered in Prague, and they will go down in history as some of his most memorable.
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156856
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Oxon, Routledge, 2017.
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126p.pbk
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Adelphi Series; 462
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9780815384663
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:1,Q:0
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| 059260 | 355.825119/DOY 059260 | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | |
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116651
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2013.
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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?
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