TWQ: Disarmament and Other Nuclear Norms - Spring 2013

There is not great cause for disarmament optimism, in part because nuclear arsenals do not connect in a systemic way, which might allow them to be drawn down in a coordinated effort. The challenge is not to re-assert an old norm of disarmament, but to prevent the erosion of the old norms of deterrence, non-proliferation, and of non-use.

Lawrence Freedman