The Politics of Nuclear Weapons

Andrew Futter is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester.

Andrew Futter has written a superb textbook on the politics of nuclear weapons, covering both technical and political matters with original insight, expert commentary and thorough organization that makes this an excellent choice for undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations, foreign policy and military strategy.

• Introduction: the politics of nuclear weaponsChapter 1: What are nuclear weapons?Chapter 2: Testing, defining and delivering nuclear weaponsChapter 3: Nuclear proliferation: why states do or don′t build the bombChapter 4: Nuclear strategy: understanding the MADnessChapter 5: Vertical proliferation challenges: assessing Article VI of the NPTChapter 6: Horizontal proliferation challenges: the nuclear outliersChapter 7: Managing nuclear proliferation challenges: limiting, preventing and defendingChapter 8: Nuclear weapons and new global actorsChapter 9: Nuclear disarmamentChapter 10: Enduring nuclear challengesConclusion: surviving our nuclear future