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Performing nuclear weapons : how Britain made Trident make sense / Paul Beaumont.

9783030675769 (electronic bk.)
3030675769 (electronic bk.)
9783030675752
3030675750

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

English

1 online resource (250 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-67576-9 doi

UA647

355.02170941

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.

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Palgrave studies in international relations.

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