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    The document discusses three models that attempt to explain why states seek to develop nuclear weapons: 1. The security model argues that states build nuclear weapons in response to emerging nuclear threats from rival states. 2. The domestic politics model views nuclear weapons development as serving the parochial interests of bureaucratic and political actors within a state. 3. The norm model views nuclear weapons as symbols of state identity and prestige that are influenced by international norms like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The document uses examples like South Africa's nuclear weapons pursuit in response to threats from the Soviet Union and India's 1974 nuclear test influenced by domestic political concerns to illustrate these three models.

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    The document discusses three models that attempt to explain why states seek to develop nuclear weapons: 1. The security model argues that states build nuclear weapons in response to emerging nuclear threats from rival states. 2. The domestic politics model views nuclear weapons development as serving the parochial interests of bureaucratic and political actors within a state. 3. The norm model views nuclear weapons as symbols of state identity and prestige that are influenced by international norms like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The document uses examples like South Africa's nuclear weapons pursuit in response to threats from the Soviet Union and India's 1974 nuclear test influenced by domestic political concerns to illustrate these three models.

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    RUPP

    IFL
    DIS

    WHY DO STATES BUILDING


    NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
    COURE: IS409 CLASS: E4.1
    LECTURER: NBR GROUP: 6
    2020-2021
    CONTENT
    01 AN OVERVIEW

    02 THE SECURITY MODEL


    - Explaining Nuclear Restraint
    - Policy Implications of The Security Model
    - Problems and Evidence

    03 THE DOMESTIC POLITIC MODEL


    - Addressing The India Puzzle
    - South Africa Revisited
    - Policy Implication of The Domestic Politics Model

    04 THE NORMS MODEL


    - French Grandeur and Weapons Policy
    - The NPT and The Ukraine Case
    - Policy Implications of the Norm Model

    05 CONCLUSION
    Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?

    States will seek to develop nuclear weapons


    when they face a significant threat. If they
    don’t face such threat, they will willingly
    remain non-nuclear states.

    Conventional Wisdom

    Nuclear weapons are more than just tools for


    national security.

    KANYA
    Three Models in Search of a Bomb

    1 The Security Model: Nuclear Weapons and International


    Threats

    2 The Domestic Model Politics: Nuclear Pork and Parochial Interest

    3 The Norm Model: Nuclear Symbols and State Identity


    The Security Model

    Increase national security Balance of power: self- Deterrent or Coercive


    against foreign threats sufficient or join alliance

    States actually build nuclear weapons in a EXAMPLE:


    response to emerging nuclear threat from their - A threat from the U.S to USSR
    main rival. - A threat from the U.S to China
    The Security Model: Explaining Nuclear Restraints

    Growing Soviet Expansionist


    Threat to Southern Africa

    Nuclear restraints occur as a


    result of the radical change Develop 6 Atomic Weapons
    Mid-1970s
    to Serve as a Deterrent
    in external security threats. Against Soviet

    Destroyed its Own Nuclear


    Arsenals in 1991 as the Threat
    From Soviet Eliminated

    Case Study: South Africa


    The Domestic Politics
    Model
     Nuclear weapon as a political tool to serve the
    parochial bureaucratic or political interests.

     Three kinds of actors:


    - The state’s nuclear energy establishment
    - Important military units
    - Politicians

     Actors form coalitions

    HAKSENG
    The Domestic Politics Model (Con’t)

    -
    • Bureaucratic Actors • Scientific-Military • Political Coalition
    x
    Industrial Comple
     Not seen as passive recipients  Builds broader political
    loped
     Initial ideas deve support within executive
    tories
     Create the conditions that inside state labora or legislative branches.
    favor weapons acquisition ate
     Scientists find/cre onal
    si
    sponsors in profes
    military.

     However, Realists recognize the domestic political actors have parochial interests and that interests have only a
    marginal influence on crucial national security issues due to bureaucratic battles determine whether a state to
    builds 500 or 1000 ICBMs.

    HAKSENG
    Proliferation Revisited: Addressing the India Puzzle
     
     No consensus among officials in New Delhi to have a nuclear
    deterrent as a response to the 1964 Chinese nuclear test.

     Prime Minister Gandhi developed an alliance to fabricate a


    nuclear device in 1971.

     Domestic Political Concerns:


    - Decision to test was made in a very small circle
    Ex: Defense and foreign affairs officials were not involved
    - Absence of a systematic program for nuclear weapons
    - Domestic support for Gandhi was at an all time low

    India Case
    HAKSENG
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