Chapter 8 The Limits of Nuclear Learning in the New Nuclear Age
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2023

The idea of nuclear learning offers a power ful reason for optimism about the future nuclear landscape.According to the nuclear learning argument, new nuclear-armed states learn over time that nuclear weapons are good for deterring invasion or nuclear attack but not much else.In Kenneth Waltz's words, "the slow spread of nuclear weapons gives states time to learn to live with them . . .and to understand the limits they place on be hav ior." 1 Others acknowledge that learning takes time and may e