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Comment: Impact on nuclear weapons on international relations.

  • UPSC 1991
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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Within months of Hiroshima, Bernard Brodie wrote in The Absolute Weapon (1946) that the chief purpose of military establishments must now be to avert wars rather than win them. That sentence sums up the nuclear revolution. Nuclear weapons changed the purpose of force, the structure of the international system and the norms of statecraft, though…

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  • Strategy: from victory to deterrence
  • The international system
  • Conflict moves below the threshold
  • Norms and their critics
  • The present test
  • Conclusion
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