Third or "Second and a Half"? Continuity, Path Dependence, and the Third Nuclear Age
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F25%3A10498885" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/25:10498885 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=icaPF6iYTz" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=icaPF6iYTz</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70037" target="_blank" >10.1111/1758-5899.70037</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Third or "Second and a Half"? Continuity, Path Dependence, and the Third Nuclear Age
Original language description
The world has entered a new nuclear age. Scholars have characterized this "third nuclear age" as one of renewed competition among nuclear-armed great powers and the coming maturation of new technologies. I trace the origins of the new nuclear age. Focusing primarily on US strategies with two case studies on conventional strike capabilities and missile defense and briefly examining how Russia and China respond with their nuclear buildups, I argue that the new age is not simply a renewed Cold War-like competition with more advanced technologies. Instead, the new nuclear age shows significant path dependency from post-Cold War US strategies against rogue states. It inherits a strategic focus on regional contingencies and the interplay between nuclear deterrence and "conventional counter-deterrence." The latter seeks to deny nuclear-armed US adversaries the ability to deter US regional intervention by undermining their nuclear deterrence capabilities. While these strategies enhance US conventional superiority, they also fuel an arms race in peacetime and heighten contention in crises.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Global Policy
ISSN
1758-5880
e-ISSN
1758-5899
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
934-944
UT code for WoS article
001493099400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105006597314