Considering the impressive quantity of existing literature on the spread of nuclear weapons from the preventive perspective (nonproliferation), this comparative cross-national study draws on a less commonly discussed, yet equally significant, body of work focusing on nuclear renunciation, more...

This paper focuses on arguably the single most striking contrast in contemporary major energy politics in Europe (and even the developed world as a whole): the starkly differing civil nuclear policies of Germany and the UK. Germany is seeking entirely to phase out nuclear power by 2022. Yet the...