POL208Y1 : Scott Sagan Article Analysis & notes

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: three models in search of a bomb. Predicting the long-term future of international security. Current foreign policy efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Surprising how little information has been focused to examining alternative answers because. The answer to this proliferation puzzle is agreed upon by the u. s. policymakers and most international relations scholars. It is that states will develop nuclear weapons when they face a military threat to their security that cannot be met through alternative means; if they do not face such threats, they will willingly remain non-nuclear states. He says that view focusing on national security considerations as the cause of proliferation. Insufficient because nuclear weapons programs also serve other objectives. Argument of security put forward by states motive build weapons. Explains cases of nuclear weapon proliferation by security interests only. Nuclear weapons - are more than tools; are objects of political importance in domestic debates and internal bureaucratic; international normative symbols.

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