Challenging nuclearism: A humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order [Paperback]

Challenging nuclearismexplores how a deliberate normalisation of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why it has prevailed in international politics for over seventy years and why it is only now being questioned seriously. The book identifies how certain practices have enabled a small group of states to hold vast arsenals of these weapons of mass destruction and how the close control over nuclear decisions by a select group has meant that the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons have been disregarded for decades.

The recent UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will not bring about quick disarmament. It has been decried by the nuclear weapon states. But by rejecting nuclearism and providing a clear denunciation of nuclear weapons, it will challenge nuclear states in a way that has until now not been possible.Challenging nuclearismanalyses the origins and repercussions of this pivotal moment in nuclear politics.

GBAn analysis of how nuclear weapons states have been able to 'normalise' nuclear weapons by practising elements of nuclearism. These practices have all been affected by the creation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which represents a major challenge to these states and their domination of the global nuclear order.Marianne Hanson is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.

Challenging nuclearismexplores how a deliberate normalisation of nuclear weapons has been constructed and why it has prevailed in international politics for over 70 years. It argues that it is only now that this normalisation is being questioned seriously.

The book identifies several elements of nuclearism to show how particular practices have enabled a small group of states to hold vast arsenals of these most destructive of all weapons of mass destruction. It argues that the evolution of nuclear discourses anlS*