Limited Nuclear War and Great Power Competition

• In Event: Great Power Competition: Geopolitics, Nuclear Proliferation, and Alliances

Brief Overview

A strategy of limited nuclear war has returned as U.S. policymakers grapple with the threats presented by nuclear-armed peer and regional competitors. The analysis in this paper concludes that it is shortsighted and potentially self-defeating.

Author

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