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Hebatalla Taha, photo.

Hebatalla Taha

Researcher

Hebatalla Taha, photo.

How dawn turned into dusk: Scoping and closing possible nuclear futures after the Cold War

Author

  • Benoît Pelopidas
  • Hebatalla Taha
  • Vaughan Tom

Summary, in English

How was the scope of nuclear weapons policy change immediately after the Cold War determined? Nuclear learning and worst-case thinking are common but not satisfactory answers. On the basis of primary sources in multiple languages, we posit that a particular temporalization of nuclear events in the beginning of the 1990s took place: nonproliferation timescaping. The Iraqi case of opaque proliferation was treated as the harbinger of future nuclear danger, while the breakup of the nuclear-armed USSR was depicted as not repeatable or not to worry about, and South African nuclear disarmament was reframed as a non-proliferation success.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science
  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Strategic Studies

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • History

Keywords

  • Nuclear disarmament
  • nuclear proliferation
  • South Africa
  • Iraq
  • futures

Status

Epub

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0140-2390