Nuclear Deterrence Works
Nuclear weapons are the technological embodiment of humanity’s capacity for wanton destruction . Many of those who created them were appalled at what they had done. Yet, the deterrent power of nuclear weapons is also credited with helping to prevent another world war. As the international world order breaks down, is there an argument for reconsidering nuclear weapons as the ultimate guarantor of national security? Or in the face of other technological developments, are they already simply too dangerous and redundant to keep?
STEPHAN FRÜHLING
Professor Stephan Frühling is the Associate Dean (Education) of the College of Asia and the Pacific of the Australian National University.
He researches and teaches in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, and has widely published on Australian defence policy, defence planning and strategy, nuclear weapons and NATO.
Stephan was the Fulbright Professional Fellow in Australia-US Alliance Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2017. He worked as a ‘Partner across the globe’ research fellow in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015, and was a member of the Australian Government’s External Panel of Experts on the development of the 2016 Defence White Paper.
Previously, he was the inaugural Director of Studies of the ANU Master in Military Studies program at the Australian Defence Force’s Australian Command and Staff College, where he worked from 2011 to 2013, and Managing Editor of the Kokoda Foundation’s journal Security Challenges from 2006 to 2014.
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