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Performing Nuclear Weapons = How Britain Made Trident Make Sense /

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Title/Author:	Performing Nuclear Weapons/ by Paul Beaumont.
Reminder of title:	How Britain Made Trident Make Sense /
Author:	Beaumont, Paul.
Description:	XV, 242 p. 1 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	International Security Studies. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67576-9
ISBN:	9783030675769

Performing Nuclear Weapons = How Britain Made Trident Make Sense /
Beaumont, Paul.

Performing Nuclear WeaponsHow Britain Made Trident Make Sense /[electronic resource] :by Paul Beaumont. - 1st ed. 2021. - XV, 242 p. 1 illus.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in International Relations. - Palgrave Studies in International Relations.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Problematizing the Maintenance of Nuclear Weapons -- Chapter 2. Explaining Britain’s Bomb -- Chapter 3. Nuclear Regimes of Truth -- Chapter 4. Constructing the Nuclear Weapon Problem -- Chapter 5. Blair’s Nuclear Regime of Truth -- Chapter 6. Thatcher’s Nuclear Regime of Truth -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Breaking Down Britain’s Nuclear Regime of Truth & Putting it Back Together Again.

This book investigates the UK’s 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 UK’s 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. Paul Beaumont is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations/International Environmental Studies and Development from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He has published peer-reviewed articles in Third World Quarterly, Global Affairs, and New Perspectives, policy-orientated research on behalf of the International Law and Policy Institute, and several op-eds in Klassekampen and Aftenposten.

ISBN: 9783030675769

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-67576-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1140687
International Security Studies.

LC Class. No.: JZ2-6530

Dewey Class. No.: 327.101

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