Over the last seven decades, some states successfully leveraged the threat of acquiring atomic weapons to compel concessions from superpowers. For many others, however, this coercive gambit failed to work. When does nuclear latency—the technical capacity to build the bomb—enable states to pursue effective coercion?
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Nuclear must be part of the mix.
Curtailing cooperation with the global nuclear order may be provocative, but it is not necessarily productive.
America’s potential strategic disengagement from Europe is leading key European powers to reconsider the role of nuclear weapons in European security in the absence of extended U.S. nuclear deterrence.
There is a persistent question over how to communicate U.S.-ROK alliance deterrence posture, particularly in the event of a nuclear attack by North Korea.
Seoul and Riyadh are attempting to use threats of proliferation to influence negotiations with Washington.
