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    Rethinking the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy (November 2018)

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    2018
    Author
    Gavin, Francis J.
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    LBJ School of Public Affairs
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    Nuclear weapons have long played a central but often unappreciated role in American grand strategy. In spite of the unimaginable consequences of their use in war, we know far less about how the bomb shapes U.S. national security and world politics than we should. Both our leading theories and histories have failed to fully explain important choices American leaders have made about the bomb over the past eight decades. This is less a failing of scholarship and more a reflection of the steep methodological, linguistic, and normative barriers to understanding nuclear strategy and statecraft. This challenge will only deepen, as new geopolitical and technological forces return the critical question of the purpose and consequences of nuclear weapons to the heart of the debate about the future of America’s grand strategy.
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    nuclear weapons
    U.S. national security
    nuclear strategy
    TNSR Vol. 2, Iss. 1
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    https://hdl.handle.net/2152/73734
    http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/867
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