Inventing nuclear disarmament. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ritchie, Nick
• Is Part Of: Critical studies on security. Volume 7:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 73
• Page End: 77
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Security, International -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; 355
• DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2018.1468083
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2162-4909

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons forms part of the process of 'inventing' nuclear disarmament. Inventing nuclear disarmament necessarily entails diminishing counter-vailing ideas, norms, and practices. This includes ideas and practices of nuclear deterrence and 'regimes of truth' about nuclear weapons that imbue them with value. Inventing nuclear disarmament will be a continuous process rather than an end point: always contingent, always contested, always in production.