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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Samuels, Richard J.
• Schoff, James L.

Titel

Japan's Nuclear Hedge: Beyond "Allergy" and Breakout

Ist Teil von

• Political science quarterly, 2015-09, Vol.130 (3), p.475-503

Ort / Verlag

New York: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Japanese strategists have long been ambivalent about nuclear weapons. On the one hand, memories of horrific nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have sustained antinuclear sentiment and helped justify national policies championing nonproliferation and forgoing an indigenous nuclear arsenal. This “nuclear allergy” has been diagnosed as a genetic condition, and associated institutional and diplomatic constraints on nuclear breakout have been invoked to predict that Japan will find it virtually impossible to reverse course on nuclear weapons.