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proliferation pessimism: a standalone construct

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Security studies

the argument that military organizational behavior makes deterrence failures and accidents likely, so the spread of nuclear weapons increases danger.

In security studies, proliferation pessimism refers to the argument that military organizational behavior makes deterrence failures and accidents likely, so the spread of nuclear weapons increases danger. This meaning comes from Sagan (1994) in International Security.[1]

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References

Sagan, S. D. (1994). The Perils of Proliferation: Organization Theory, Deterrence Theory, and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons. International Security, 18(4), 66. https://doi.org/10.2307/2539178

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