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| Worrying about controllability of nuclear war by building smaller warheads just signals you are bluffing | Colby | 100%
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| Modern innovations e.g. underwater drones, AI and sensors, BMD makes current thought short termist. Normative international opinion turning vs UK interaction with ICJ discrediting countervalue strike. | Futter | 100%
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| #3 NPT hampers domestic idealistic construction required for the demand of nukes - states build the same reason they have airlines | Hymans | 100%
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| #2 reason: domestic pathologies, risk of failure, internal divisions prefers hedging umbrella | Miller | 100%
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| #1 reason for no prolif: preventative strike, uncommitted ally, nuclear umbrella coercion | Monteiro | 100%
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| #3 COUNTER that 28/31 of potential proliferating events appear to lend themselves to security threats, is idealism that important? | Monteiro | 100%
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| Q2 UK: Blitz made UK feel vulnerable, Attlee saw nukes qualitatively | Quinlan | 100%
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| UK keeps costs down this way, as France has complete independence whilst keeping ruinous costs away vs France 2-3x the cost. | Quinlan | 100%
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| #3 shift in international perception from France in 1950s | Sagan | 100%
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| Q2 OVERALL: international system anarchic, offsets military deficiencies, can be used for prestige purposes | Sagan | 100%
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| #2 arguing globalisation acts as domestic block, as actors internally would rather open up to the world and not face sanctions. | Sollingen | 100%
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| Argentina never believed the UK would use nukes, therefore it appears very expensive for something with such tiny scope for usage? | Wilson | 100%
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| UK: threat of annihilation from vulnerability requires a nuke, UK naturally is a target as important ally of US. Important role in NATO | Craig | 0%
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| #3 COUNTER it is actually the physical components of the NPT e.g. declaring facilities and inspections that makes building quietly impossible - link back to risk of failure in point 2 | Fuhrmann | 0%
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| Trident: UK has operational capacity on its own, but Trident D5s and testing facilities come from US | Ritchie | 0%
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| #3 cost of acquisition is sky high, both politically and economically (leads on from Sollingen) | Thayer | 0%
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