The Nuclear Straightjacket: American Extended Deterrence and Nonproliferation

Benoît Pelopidas (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

In this chapter, I discuss the future of US extended nuclear deterrence and the possibility of change in nuclear weapons and alliance policies. While several chapters in this book document and analyze the limits of extended deterrence arrangements, the goal of this chapter is to take a step back and look at the understanding of history that frames possible and desirable change in US nuclear weapons policy and submit it to historical critique based on European case studies...

Keywords: nuclear weapons; United States; nonproliferation

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Benoît Pelopidas. The Nuclear Straightjacket: American Extended Deterrence and Nonproliferation. Stéfanie Von Hlatky; Andreas Wenger. The Future of Extended Deterrence. The United States, NATO, and Beyond, Georgetown University Press, pp.73 - 106, 2015, 9781626162648. ⟨hal-03459706⟩