Evangelizing Armageddon: The Uses and Implications of Cold War Declaratory Policy

• In Event: Priorities and Decisionmaking among US Foreign Policymakers

Brief Overview

Questions remain about the logic and effects of declaratory policy in nuclear strategy. We theorize declaratory policy's effects on domestic politics and conduct a case study of US declaratory policy in the 1970s.

Authors

• Colleen Larkin, University of California, San Diego

• David Walter Kearn, Saint John's University, New York