Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?
@article{Suh2022NuclearBA, title={Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?}, author={Kyung-Hong Suh}, journal={Journal of Peace Research}, year={2022} }
The nuclear competition school, an emerging theoretical perspective on the political effect of nuclear weapons, argues that a favorable nuclear balance can significantly reduce one’s expected costs of nuclear war and therefore affect the interaction between nuclear-armed states, such as deterrence and crisis outcomes. This new perspective also presents a wide array of empirical evidence demonstrating the significant effect of the nuclear balance of power on political outcomes, thereby…
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