What does it mean to be a responsible nuclear power in 2025? As strategic competition, and indeed great power competition, reemerged in the late 2010s and early 2020s, competing nuclear states increasingly employ the language of nuclear responsibility to label a strategic competitor as an irresponsible actor on the international stage. However, there remains a lack of consensus on what responsibilities nuclear-weapon states are assigned while other states and scholars argue that the possession of nuclear weapons can never be responsible. In Nuclear Responsibility: Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition, the editors Todd C. Robinson and Stephanie A. Stapleton have asked a broad range of nuclear scholars and policy practitioners to answer the question, “What is nuclear responsibility?”
In this edited volume, the editors have asked a broad range of nuclear scholars and policy practitioners to answer the question, “What is nuclear responsibility in an era of great power competition?”
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In this edited volume, the editors have asked a broad range of nuclear scholars and policy practitioners to answer the question, What is nuclear responsibility in an era of great power competition?
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List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Todd C. Robinson, Air Command and Staff College, USA and
Stephanie A. Stapleton, Kennesaw State University, USA
Chapter 1: Reconceptualizing Nuclear Responsibility by Todd C. Robinson, Air
Command and Staff College, USA and Alice Spilman, University of Birmingham,
UK
Chapter 2: From One Cold War to the Next: Hedging as an Enduring Imperative
by Kyle Balzer, American Enterprise Institute, USA
Chapter 3: Nuclear Responsibility and the Shift in U.S. Disarmament Rhetoric
by Tyler Bowen, U.S. Naval War College, USA
Chapter 4: The Emerging American Consensus on the Responsibility to
Modernize, Compete, and Win by Robert Peters, The Heritage Foundation, USA
Chapter 5: Nuclear Responsibility in an Age of Integrated Deterrence: Does
Doing More Lead to Better Responsibility? by E. Paige Reid, School of
Advanced Air and Space Studies, USA
Chapter 6: Sharing is Caring? The (Ir)responsibility of NATOs Nuclear
Sharing Policy by Linde Desmaele, Leiden University, Netherlands
Chapter 7: Chinas Views of Its Responsibilities as a Nuclear Weapon State by
Brendan Mulvaney, China Aerospace Studies Institute, USA
Chapter 8: Shifting Responsibilities: North Koreas Pursuit of Nuclear
Weapons as a Security Imperative by Jinwon Lee, University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign, USA
Chapter 9: Gender, Feminism, and Constructions of Nuclear Responsibility by
Sophia Poteet, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, USA
Chapter 10: Beyond Blame: Fostering Inclusive Dialogue on Nuclear
Responsibilities
by Eva-Nour Repussard, British American Security Information Council, UK
Chapter 11: Justification and critique in the global nuclear order: Nuclear
(ir)responsibility as practice by Megan Dee, University of Stirling, UK
Conclusion by Todd C. Robinson, Air Command and Staff College, USA and
Stephanie A. Stapleton, Kennesaw State University, USA
Bibliography
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Todd C. Robinson is associate professor of military and security studies with the School for Advanced Nuclear Deterrence Studies at the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell.
Stephanie A. Stapleton is PhD candidate in international conflict management at Kennesaw State University where she explores the impact of domestic political factors on US participation in nuclear agreements.
