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Comment: Relevance of Diplomacy in the Nuclear Age.

  • UPSC 1999
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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In The Absolute Weapon (1946), Bernard Brodie argued that the chief purpose of military establishments would henceforth be to avert wars rather than win them. That shift moved the burden of security from the battlefield to the negotiating table. Nuclear weapons were expected to make diplomacy redundant, since a state able to destroy another need…

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  • The case that diplomacy declined
  • Why diplomacy became indispensable
  • The South Asian test
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