Nuclear Disarmament A Critical Assessment

This volume, Nuclear Disarmament,provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward. Comprising essays by leading scholars on nuclear disarmament, the book highlights arguments in favour and against a world without nuclear weapons (global zero). In doing so, it proposes a new baseline from which an everchanging nuclear arms control and disarmament agenda can be assessed. Numerous paths to nuclear disarmament have been proposed and scrutinized, and with an increasing number of countries signing off on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, it is vital to ask which path is the most likely and realistic to succeed. Thechapters here also address the rapid pace of technological, political and climatic developments, in relation to nuclear disarmament, and how they add to the complexity of the issue. Taking care to unite the different tribes in the debate, this book provides a community of dissent at a time when academic tribalism all too often prevents genuine debates from taking place. This book will be ofinterest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, security studies and International Relations.

Introduction Bård Nikolas Vik Steen and Olav Njølstad Section I: Is ‘old school’ nuclear disarmament dead? 1. Is ‘Old School’ Nuclear Disarmament Dead? Lawrence Freedman 2. Was Nuclear Disarmament Ever Alive? Charles L. Glaser Section II: What happens to strategic stability and deterrence at low numbers? 3. Why Nuclear Disarmament and Strategic Stability Are Incompatible Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press 4. Nuclear weapons as a wicked problem in a complex world Patricia M. Lewis Section III: Is a Ban a credible path to Global Zero? 5. The Nuclear Ban Treaty and humanitarian strategies to eliminate nuclear threats Rebecca Johnson 6. Decreeing abolition? The pitfalls of a treaty-based approach for getting to zero James M. Acton 7. Nuclear Ethics and the Ban Treaty Brad Roberts Section IV: What can the incremental approach to nuclear disarmament deliver? 8. What can the incremental approach to nuclear disarmament deliver? Angela Kane 9. Phased Approach to Nuclear Arms Control Alexei Arbatov Section V: Is nuclear disarmament a climate question? 10. Nuclear and Climate Connections: The History, Evolution, and Implications Christine Parthemore 11. Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy, and Climate Change: Exploring the Linkages Matthew Bunn Section VI: Technology and nuclear weapons – are we asking the wrong questions? 12. Emerging Non-Nuclear Technology and the Future of Global Nuclear Order Andrew Futter with Benjaim Zala Section VII: Will the Current Regimes Remain Fit for Purpose? 13.Dim Hope for Disarmament and Approaching Risk of Build Up Wu Riqiang 14. Forecasting Nuclear Disarmament: Can the NPT Get Us to the Finish Line? William C. Potter Section VIII: Where are we heading? Radical departures from the status quo 15. Radical departures from the status quo and their impacts on Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament: Positive and Negative Philip E. Coyle 16. How Will the Nuclear 21st Century End? Bruno Tertrais

Bård Nikolas Vik Steen is the Programme Manager of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo. Olav Njølstad is the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and adjunct professor at the University of Oslo.