Most of what is written on nuclear weapons concentrates, understandably, on the here and now: the nuclear threat is a central and continuing fact of modern history . But this is intellectually constricting, both for understanding the nuclear age and for making thoughtful political judgments. It...

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...