What are tactical nuclear weapons and would Russia resort to using them in Ukraine?
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While many countries have tested anti-satellite missiles, France has committed itself not to do so. For what reasons, and with what consequences?
Tactical nuclear weapons were designed to be used on the battlefield rather than for strategic defense, but that doesn’t mean there’s a plausible case for using them.
Policymakers often think of their decisions about nuclear weapons as moral, a nuclear ethicist explains – which is key to understanding their motives.
Using nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be difficult and risky for Russia.
The policy introduced the chilling concept of ‘escalate to de-escalate’.
Kwame Nkrumah and Ali Mazrui associated nuclear weapons with imperialism and racism, but proposed different approaches to address the problem they present.
A nuclear exchange, which would unleash untold destruction on both countries’ civilian populations, remains a possibility.
A new strategy from the UN secretary general challenges the world to explain why it’s not doing more to defuse the nuclear threat.
Pyongyang’s latest test isn’t the great leap forward it purports to be.
In international relations, words matter – and so does the credibility of the speaker.
The way Corbyn’s Labour has handled Trident and defence is perfectly in line with Labour’s history since the 1960s.
Game theory applies to conflict and cooperation within competitive situations.
The key question is whether North Korea does have nuclear weapons that it can readily use against the United States and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan.
Beijing has traditionally retained its nuclear weapons on a no-first-use basis, but it’s ready to deploy them more assertively.
One of the world’s worst nightmares could in fact be an unexpected opportunity.
The entire concept of nuclear deterrence depends on the assumption that everything will always work perfectly.
Reports of a failed Trident missile launch have all sorts of political and security implications – but they don’t necessarily spell catastrophe.
For decades, deterrence has effectively countered the threat of nuclear weapons. Can we achieve similar results against cyber weapons?
With a $1 trillion modernisation programme signed off and atomic scientists deeply worried about the future, American policy on nuclear weapons is pretty much business as usual.
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