Evans, Gareth - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
The Asia Pacific region includes six of the world’s nine nuclear-armed states, and in all of them relevant policymakers …, still caught in a Cold War mindset, continue to believe in nuclear deterrence as a force for peace and stability, perceiving … nuclear disarmament to be not only unachievable, but undesirable. But — whether the context is major powers seeking to …