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17.951 Nuclear Weapons in International Politics: Past, Present and Future | Political Science
This course will expose students to tools and methods of analysis for use in assessing the challenges and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in international politics. The first two weeks of the course will look at the technology and design of nuclear weapons and their means of production. The next five weeks will look at the role they played in the Cold War, the organizations that managed them, the technologies that were developed to deliver them, and the methods used to analyze nuclear force structures and model nuclear exchanges. The last six weeks of the course will look at theories and cases of nuclear decision making beyond the original five weapon states, and will look particularly at why states pursue or forego nuclear weapons, the role that individuals and institutions play, and the potential for both new sources of proliferation and new consequences.
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- Material Type:
- Online Course
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- May 12, 2016
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- June 21, 2021
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- Graduate School
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- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
