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

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.

• Författare: Benoît Pelopidas; Hebatalla Taha; Vaughan Tom
• Avdelning/ar: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES); MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
• Publiceringsår: 2024
• Språk: Engelska
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Journal of Strategic Studies
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2023.2290441
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis
• Ämne: Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies); History
• Nyckelord: Nuclear disarmament; nuclear proliferation; South Africa; Iraq; futures
• Aktiv: Epub
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 0140-2390