Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?

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Notes

¹ This is taken from Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, ‘MAD Not Marx: Khrushchev and the Nuclear Revolution’, Journal of Strategic Studies 41 (2018), 227–28. Wilson does not mention Khrushchev’s response in his book. I will assume he was unaware of it.

² See, for example, H.A. Feiveson, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, and Frank von Hippel, Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 2014).

³ See Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War (New Haven, CT: Yale UP 2008).

⁴ An interesting article on how irreversible disarmament may be achieved is Nick Ritchie, ‘Irreversibility and Nuclear Disarmament: Unmaking Nuclear Weapon Complexes’, Journal of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament 6 (2023).

⁵ Kjølv Egeland, ‘The Ideology of Nuclear Order’, New Political Science 43 (2021).

⁶ See, inter alia, Tom Sauer and Jolien Pretorius, ‘When is it legitimate to Abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a Political Tool to Move Nuclear Disarmament Forward’, Contemporary Security Policy 43 (2022), and Nick Ritchie, ‘A Hegemonic Nuclear Order: Understanding the Ban Treaty and the Power Politics of Nuclear Weapons’, Contemporary Security Policy 40 (2019).

⁷ On this point see Kenneth Waltz, in Scott Sagan and Waltz, ‘The Great Debate: Is Nuclear Zero the Best Option?’ The National Interest 109 (Sept./Oct. 2010). Also see Jan Ruzicka, ‘The Next Great Hope: The Humanitarian Approach to Nuclear Weapons’, Journal of International Political Theory 15 (2019).

⁸ See Campbell Craig and Jan Ruzicka, ‘The Nonproliferation Complex’, Ethics and International Affairs 27 (2013).