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Meeting the Challenges of the New Nuclear Age:

Emerging Risks and Declining Norms in the Age of Technological Innovation and Changing Nuclear Doctrines

Authors
Nina Tannenwald, James M. Acton, and Jane Vaynman
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Meeting the Challenges of the New Nuclear Age
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jane Vaynman

The Great Unraveling: The Future of the Nuclear Normative Order

Nina Tannenwald
Explaining Normative Change: Theoretical Perspectives
Two Ethical Views of Nuclear Weapons
The Existing Regime of Nuclear Restraint
The Undermining of the Deterrence Regime
The Norm of Non-Use
Normative Inconsistency: The Nuclear Powers and the Nonproliferation Norm

Technology, Doctrine, and the Risk of Nuclear War

James M. Acton
Managing the Nuclear Order
Crises and Escalation
Looking Forward

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Meeting the Challenges of the New Nuclear Age

Meeting the Challenges of the New Nuclear Age examines some of the possible escalation pathways that could lead one or more nuclear weapons states to use nuclear weapons and aims to articulate a set of recommendations for de-escalating possible nuclear crises mostly involving the United States and its allies.

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Christopher F. Chyba and Robert Legvold
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