Nuclear Decisions
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Nuclear Decisions
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Author : Koch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
Nuclear Decisions written by Koch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Political Science categories.
Throughout the nuclear age, states have taken many different paths toward or away from nuclear weapons. These paths have been difficult to predict and cannot be explained simply by a stable or changing security environment. We can make sense of these paths by examining leaders' nuclear decisions. The political decisions state leaders make to accelerate or reverse progress toward nuclear weapons define each state's course. Whether or not a state ultimately acquires nuclear weapons depends to a large extent on those nuclear decisions. This book offers a novel theory of nuclear decision-making that identifies two mechanisms that shape leaders' understandings of the costs and benefits of their nuclear pursuits. The internal mechanism is the intervention of domestic experts in key scientific and military organizations. If the conditions are right, those experts may be able to influence a leader's nuclear decision-making. The external mechanism emerges from the structure and politics of the international system. Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs identifies three different proliferation eras, in which changes to international political and structural conditions have constrained or freed states pursuing nuclear weapons development. Scholars and practitioners alike will gain new insights from the fascinating case studies of nine states across the three eras. Through this global approach to studying nuclear proliferation, this book pushes back against the conventional wisdom that determined states pursue a straight path to the bomb. Instead, nuclear decisions define a state's nuclear pursuits.
Rationality And Ritual
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Author : Brian Wynne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Rationality And Ritual written by Brian Wynne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Science categories.
In Rationality and Ritual, internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britain's nuclear history – the Windscale Inquiry, a public hearing about the future of fuel reprocessing – he offers a powerful critique of such judicial procedures and the underlying assumptions of the rationalist approach. This second edition makes available again this classic and still very relevant work. Debates about nuclear power have come to the fore once again. Yet we still do not have adequate ways to make decisions or frame policy deliberation on these big issues, involving true public debate, rather than ritualistic processes in which the rules and scope of the debate are presumed and imposed by those in authority. The perspectives in this book are as significant and original as they were when it was written. The new edition contains a substantial introduction by the author reflecting on changes (and lack of) in the intervening years and introducing new themes, relevant to today's world of big science and technology, that can be drawn out of the original text. A new foreword by Gordon MacKerron, an expert on energy and nuclear policy, sets this seminal work in the context of contemporary nuclear and related big technology debates.
How Nuclear Weapons Decisions Are Made
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Author : John Beyer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1986-01-28
How Nuclear Weapons Decisions Are Made written by John Beyer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-28 with Political Science categories.
How are the decisions made which produce the phenomenal arsenals of nuclear weapons in the world today? Who makes them? To whom are they answerable? What role does Parliament play? These questions have until now been shrouded in mystery. But until the answers to them are widely and openly known, those who are concerned about the build-up of nuclear arsenals cannot know how the process works, and to whom they should address themselves. That is why this book is a breakthrough. It explains, for the first time, how nuclear weapons decisions are made in each of the nuclear nations. The Oxford Research Group has brought together, entirely from non-classified sources, a mass of information to throw light on a hitherto invisible and unaccountable process.
The Nuclear Power Decisions
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Author : Roger Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-27
The Nuclear Power Decisions written by Roger Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-27 with Business & Economics categories.
Originally published in 1980. More so than any other energy resource, nuclear power has the capacity to provide much of our energy needs but is highly controversial. This book discusses the major British decisions in the civil nuclear field, and the way they were made, between 1953 and 1978. It spans the period between the decision to construct Calder Hall – claimed as the world’s first nuclear power station – and the Windscale Inquiry – claimed as the world's most thorough study of a nuclear project. For the period up to 1974 this involves a study of the internal processes of British central government. The private issues include the technical selection of nuclear reactors, the economic arguments about nuclear power and the political clashes between institutions and individuals. The public issues concern nuclear safety and the environment and the rights and opportunities for individuals and groups to protest about nuclear development. The book demonstrates that British civil nuclear power decision making had many shortcomings and concludes that it was hampered by outdated political and administrative attitudes and machinery and that some of the central issues in the nuclear power debate were misunderstood by the decision makers themselves.
Rationality And Ritual
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Author : Brian Wynne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Rationality And Ritual written by Brian Wynne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Political Science categories.
Decision Making In A Nuclear Middle East
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Author : Ozzie Paez
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-05-17
Decision Making In A Nuclear Middle East written by Ozzie Paez and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with categories.
Decision Making in a Nuclear Middle East-Lessons from the Cold War is a book for all who are concerned about the future of the Middle East, the survival of Israel and the potential for a tragic nuclear conflict in the region. This book opens a window into the early years of the nuclear age, shedding light on decisions that more than once brought the world close, sometimes very close, to a global nuclear war. It describes technical glitches and human failures that triggered false alarms, as well as the courageous decisions that likely prevented an accidental Armageddon. Decision Making in a Nuclear Middle East takes an operational, decision-making approach to explore how decisions about the use of nuclear weapons were made and how the nuclear powers had to overcome operational challenges. You will learn from previously secret discussions held by the US National Security Council, Soviet leaders and other governments' officials how multiple crises in Berlin, the Taiwan Straits, and the Caribbean put millions of lives at risk. If you believe that the Cold War ended as it was predestined, then this book will give you pause. And if you think that a future nuclear standoff between Iran and Israel will also lead to peace, then you will likely have to reconsider.
How Nuclear Weapons Decisions Are Made
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1986-01-01
How Nuclear Weapons Decisions Are Made written by and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Military planning categories.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances
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Author : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances written by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Nuclear energy categories.
Planning For Nuclear Deterrence And Defense
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Author : Kevin Neil Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Planning For Nuclear Deterrence And Defense written by Kevin Neil Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Deterrence (Strategy). categories.
Behavioral Economics And Nuclear Weapons
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Author : Anne I. Harrington
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2019
Behavioral Economics And Nuclear Weapons written by Anne I. Harrington and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Political Science categories.
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler have shown, people often depart in systematic ways from the predictions of the rational actor model of classic economic thought because of the influence of emotions, cognitive biases, an aversion to loss, and other strong motivations and values. These findings about the limits of rationality have formed the basis of behavioral economics, an approach that has attracted enormous attention in recent years. This collection of essays applies the insights of behavioral economics to the study of nuclear weapons policy. Behavioral economics gives us a more accurate picture of how people think and, as a consequence, of how they make decisions about whether to acquire or use nuclear arms. Such decisions are made in real-world circumstances in which rational calculations about cost and benefit are intertwined with complicated emotions and subject to human limitations. Strategies for pursuing nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation should therefore, argue the contributors, account for these dynamics in a systematic way. The contributors to this collection examine how a behavioral approach might inform our understanding of topics such as deterrence, economic sanctions, the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and U.S. domestic debates about ballistic missile defense. The essays also take note of the limitations of a behavioral approach for dealing with situations in which even a single deviation from the predictions of any model can have dire consequences.