Estimating the Demand for Nuclear Weapons: The Agenda Ahead
Report (375.0Kb)Abstract
The project will investigate the historical demand for nuclear weapons in order to
better understand why states do or do not pursue them. In the last three decades,
the study of nuclear proliferation has straddled the academic-policy divide, with a
wave of systematic studies spanning different theoretical and methodological
approaches. However, there has been little effort to integrate these various
approaches to develop a comprehensive understanding of cases of nuclear
proliferation or nonproliferation. This project seeks to understand which states
have pursued nuclear weapons and why, as well as which have abstained from
doing so despite incentives and capabilities and why.
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Performer: University of California—Irvine
Project Lead: Etel Solingen
Project Cost: $100,054
FY16–17
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