Leveraging Latency

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Leveraging Latency is written by Tristan A. Volpe and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197669530 (ISBN 10) and 9780197669532 (ISBN 13).

In Leveraging Latency, Tristan A. Volpe explores how weak nations compel concessions from superpowers by threatening to acquire atomic weapons. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear restraint. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten proliferation, but not so much that it becomes too difficult for them to offer nonproliferation assurances. Including four comparative case studies and identifying a generalizable mechanism--the threat-assurance tradeoff--Volpe provides a systematic assessment of the coercive utility of nuclear technology.