Politics of Nuclear Weapons

Andrew Futter is Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, UK.

• ​1. Introduction: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons.- 2. What are Nuclear Weapons and Why Are They So Powerful?.- 3. Testing, Authorising and Delivering Nuclear Weapons.- 4. Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Ages.- 5. The Nuclear Revolution, Nuclear Strategy and Nuclear War.- 6. Vertical proliferation challenges.- 7. Horizontal Proliferation Challenges: The Nuclear Outliers.- 8. Managing Nuclear Threats: Structures of Global Nuclear Governance.- 9. Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors.- 10. Nuclear Disarmament.- 11. Future Nuclear Challenges.- 12. Conclusion: Surviving our Nuclear Future.