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Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology

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Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology - Volpe, Tristan A
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In Leveraging Latency , Tristan A. Volpe explores how weak nations compel concessions from superpowers by threatening to acquire atomic weapons. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear restraint. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten proliferation, but not so much that it becomes too difficult for them to offer nonproliferation assurances. Including four comparative case studies and identifying a generalizable mechanism--the threat-assurance tradeoff- ...

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Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology 2023, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197669532

Hardcover