Books
Robert Jervis. The meaning of the nuclear revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon, Chapter 1: The Theory of the nuclear revolution: 1-45 (44 s.).
Thomas C. Schelling, Arms and Influence, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut: 1976, Chapter 1: The diplomacy of violence (pp. 1-34)
Online articles
Articles are available through the University Library database. Please see the University Library guide for access to electronic articles. Online articles are limited to computers that are connected UiO's network. You can get acess from home and when travelling.
Scott Sagan, “Why do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models in Search of a Bomb,” International Security, Vol. 21, no. 3 (Winter 1996-97): 54-86. [32 pages]
Scott D. Sagan, “The Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 17, page(s): 225-241 [16 pages]
Ariel Levite, “Never Say Never Again: Nuclear Reversal Revisited,” International Security, Vol 27, No. 3 (2002/2003), 59-88. [29 pages]
Braut-Hegghammer, M?lfrid "Proliferating Bias? American Political Science, Nuclear Weapons, and Global Security," Journal of Global Security Studies, (8 s).
Taylor Fravel and Fiona Cunningham. “Assuring Assured Retaliation: China’s Nuclear Strategy and U.S.-China Strategic Stability,” International Security Vol. 40, No. 2 (Fall 2015) p. 7-50 (43 p.)
Taylor Fravel and Evan S. Medeiros. “China’s Search for Assured Retaliation: Explaining the Evolution of China’s Nuclear Strategy,” International Security, Vol. 35, No 2 (Fall 2010) (with Evan S. Medeiros) (pp. 48-87) (39 p.)
Elizabeth Saunders, “The Domestic Politics of Nuclear Choices: A Review Essay,” Forthcoming (Fall 2019), International Security. (38 p.)
Rose McDermott, Anthony Lopez, Peter K. Hatemi. ?Blunt Not the Heart, Enrage It. The Psychology of Revenge and Deterrence”, Texas National Security Review, 1.1 (December 2017) (19 p.)
Cohn, Carol. "Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals." Signs: Journal of women in culture and society 12.4 (1987): 687-718. (31 s.)
Nancy Gallagher, 'Re-thinking the Unthinkable: Arms Control in the Twenty-First Century', The Nonproliferation Review 22:3-4 (2015), 469-98 (https://doi.org/10.1080/10736700.2016.1149279) (29 p.)
Richard Pipes. Why the Soviet Union thinks it can fight and win a nuclear war, Commentary Magazine, (July 1977) (21 p.)
Benjamin S. Lambeth, (1982), ?Uncertainties for the Soviet War Planner?, International Security, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Winter, 1982-1983), pp. 139-166 (27 p.)
Kristin Ven Bruusgaard. The myth of the Russia s lowered nuclear threshold, War on the Rocks, September 22 (2017 ) (5 p.)
Alexey Arbatov (2017), ?Understanding the US-Russia Nuclear Schism?, Survival, 59:2, pp. 33-66 (33 p.)
https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a (Watch the video called Plan A)
Brendan R: Green and Austin Long (2017), ?The MAD Who Wasnt There: Soviet Reactions to the Late Cold War Nuclear Balance?, Security Studies, 26:6, pp. 606-641
Andrei Kokoshin, Ensuring Strategic Stability in the Past and Present: Theoretical and Applied QuestionsI, Harvard Kennedy School: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, June 2011 (available online) (78 p.)
Nina Tannenwald (1999) The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use. International Organization. 53(3) Summer, 433–468. [35 pages]
Scott D. Sagan and Benjamin A. Valentino "Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants," International Security, Volume 42, Issue 1, Summer 2017, pp. 41-79 [38 pages]
Gibbons, Rebecca Davis and Keir A. Lieber. “How Durable is the Nuclear Weapons Taboo?.” The Journal of Strategic Studies, (November 9, 2018), pp. 29-54. [25 pages]
Tannenwald, Nina. "How Strong Is the Nuclear Taboo Today?." The Washington Quarterly 41.3 (2018): 89-109.
Pauly, Reid BC. "Would US Leaders Push the Button? Wargames and the Sources of Nuclear Restraint." International Security 43.2 (2018): 151-192.
Marc Trachtenberg, ‘The Past and Future of Arms Control’, Daedalus, 120:1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 203-216. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025364.pdf (13 p.)
Nancy Gallagher, 'Re-thinking the Unthinkable: Arms Control in the Twenty-First Century', The Nonproliferation Review 22:3-4 (2015), 469-98 https://doi.org/10.1080/10736700.2016.1149279. (29 p.)
Mark S. Bell. "Beyond Emboldenment: How Acquiring Nuclear Weapons Can Change Foreign Policy." International Security volume 40, no. 1 (Summer 2015): 87-119. [32 pages]
Vipin Narang "Nuclear Strategies of Emerging Nuclear Powers: North Korea and Iran," The Washington Quarterly, May 1, 2015, 73-91. [18 pages]
Posen, Barry R. "US security policy in a nuclear‐armed world or: What if Iraq had had nuclear weapons?." Security Studies 6.3 (1997): 1-31. [31 pages]
Braut-Hegghammer, M?lfrid. "Revisiting Osirak: preventive attacks and nuclear proliferation risks." International Security, Vol. 36, No.1 (2011): 101-132. [31 pages]
Holloway, David. "The Soviet Union and the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency." Cold War History (2016): 1-20. [20 pages]
Swango, Dane. "The United States and the Role of Nuclear Co-operation and Assistance in the Design of the Non-Proliferation Treaty." The International History Review 36.2 (2014): 210-229. [19 pages]
Roehrlich, Elisabeth. "The Cold War, the developing world, and the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1953–1957." Cold War History (2016): 1-18. [18 pages]
Gibbons, Rebecca Davis. “Addressing the Nuclear Ban Treaty.” Washington Quarterly, (April 16, 2019), pp. 27-40. (13 pages)
Marc Trachtenberg, ‘The Past and Future of Arms Control’, Daedalus, 120:1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 203-216 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025364.pdf) (13 p.)
Sum: 741 pages assigned reading
Recommended: James Cameron, What History Can teach, D?dalus (forthcoming, spring 2020)
William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson, “Whether to ‘Strangle the Baby in the Cradle’: The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-64,” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Winter 2000-2001), 54-99. [45 pages]
Sarah Kreps and Fuhrmann, “Attacking the Atom: Does Bombing Nuclear Facilities Affect Proliferation?” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol 34, No. 2, 161-187. [26 pages]
C. Albin and D. Druckman (2014) "Bargaining over Weapons: Justice and Effectiveness in Arms Control Negotiations." International Negotiation, Vol. 19, No. 3, 426-458. [32 pages]