Performing nuclear weapons : how Britain made Trident make sense / Paul Beaumont.
Beaumont, Paul David.
2021
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Title Performing nuclear weapons : how Britain made Trident make sense / Paul Beaumont.
Author Beaumont, Paul David.
ISBN 9783030675769 (electronic bk.)
3030675769 (electronic bk.)
9783030675752
3030675750
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67576-9
Publication Details Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (250 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-67576-9 doi
Call Number UA647
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.02170941
Summary This book investigates the UKs nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on the processes through which governments produce and maintain country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the UKs nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.
Note Includes index.
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Series Palgrave studies in international relations.
Available in Other Form Performing Nuclear Weapons.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Problematizing the Maintenance of Nuclear Weapons
Chapter 2. Explaining Britains Bomb
Chapter 3. Nuclear Regimes of Truth
Chapter 4. Constructing the Nuclear Weapon Problem
Chapter 5. Blairs Nuclear Regime of Truth
Chapter 6. Thatchers Nuclear Regime of Truth
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Breaking Down Britains Nuclear Regime of Truth & Putting it Back Together Again.

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