{"product_id":"performing-nuclear-weapons-how-britain-made-trident-make-sense-9783030675752","title":"Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made Trident Make Sense","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Beaumont\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the UK's nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c\/i\u003e. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on the processes through which governments produce and maintain country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the UK's nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Beaumont\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations\/International Environmental Studies and Development from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He has published peer-reviewed articles in \u003ci\u003eThird World Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e, policy-orientated research on behalf of the International Law and Policy Institute, and several op-eds in\u003ci\u003e Klassekampen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAftenposten\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45276055142551,"sku":"9783030675752","price":8720.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030675752.webp?v=1769284594","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/performing-nuclear-weapons-how-britain-made-trident-make-sense-9783030675752","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}