Publication

This paper considers the relevance of viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens—along with some criticisms of it—with a view to informing contemporary policy debate. This lens could help to counter the view widespread among nuclear strategists of nuclear weapons as “peace enforcers”, a (mistaken) view that has also trickled into the public consciousness in many countries despite nuclear deterrence’s many internal logical contradictions, and the paucity of solid evidence to support it.