How Useful Are Nuclear Weapons in Practice? Case-Study: The War in Ukraine
Journal: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Year: 2024

The debate about nuclear weapons has been based on abstract notions. The war in Ukraine is a fascinating case-study for testing these decades-old abstract theories. The puzzle can be formulated as follows: what has been the impact of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine and what does that tell us about the usefulness of nuclear weapons in general? That question is further split up in three questions: what does this war tells us respectively about nuclear deterrence theory, nuclear responsibilit