The gales of climate change blow the future open and closed. In response, we are having to
learn to live with a renewed notion of limits and a novel level of uncertainty. One emerging …

Why since 1945 have nuclear weapons not been used? Political scientists have cited five
basic reasons: deterrence, practicality, precedent, reputation, and ethics. Scholars …

That nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945 is one of the most intriguing
research puzzles in the field of international relations. It has sparked a fruitful scholarly …

What is a realist response to nuclear weapons? This book is animated by the idea that
contemporary attempts to confront the challenge of nuclear weapons and other global …

Security studies scholarship on nuclear weapons is particularly prone to self-censorship. 1
In this essay, I argue that this self-censorship is problematic. The vulnerability, secrecy, and …

As technologies of ocean exploitation emerged during the late 1960s, science policy and
diplomacy were formed in response to anticipated capabilities that did not match the realities …

Ten years ago I stumbled upon the photograph that graces the cover of this book. Taken in
the spring of 1979, it depicts a woman shadowing a toddler, leaning forward and clutching …

The possibility of thermonuclear war has in many ways shaped the agendas of History and
International Relations. Rigorous counterfactual analysis effectively demonstrates that the …

This article presents an intellectual and social history of the concept of the baby boom.
Researchers first invented the notion of a population bulge in the mid-twentieth-century …

Will emerging technology increase the possibility of nuclear war? Given the multitude of
ways emerging technology intersects with nuclear weapons, critical thinking about an …