Scientific article
Published:
Nye våpen, gamle vrangforestillinger: Hvordan forstå Boris Johnsons atomvåpen-politikk
Summary:
If you want to make Britain’s nuclear weapon policy make sense, you need to look inwards not outwards. Just as go-faster stripes please the owner, Britain’s new nuclear policy is better understood as a symbolic gesture performed mainly for its domestic audience. It is crucial here to understand the political function that publicly established force-limits have played British nuclear politics
- Published year: 2021
- Page count: 1
- Language: Norwegian/English
- Journal: Forsvarets Forum
- URL 1: https://forsvaretsforum.no/atomvapen-kronikk-missil/nye-vapen-gamle-vrangforestillinger-hvordan-forsta-boris-johnsons-atomvapen-politikk/201022
- URL 2: https://forsvaretsforum.no/atomvapen-english-kronikk/understanding-boris-johnsons-nuclear-policy-new-weapons-old-delusions/200442
- URL 3:
Written by
Paul Beaumont
Senior Research Fellow