TY - BOOK AU - Walker,William TI - A perpetual menace: nuclear weapons and international order SN - 9780415421058 (hbk.) AV - JZ5665 .W35 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Nuclear arms control KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Government policy KW - Security, International KW - World politics KW - 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the problems of nuclear order and their understanding -- The awakenings, 1939-46 -- Sculpting an order out of disorder: nuclear weapons and the Cold War -- Two crises of nuclear order, 1973-86 -- The international nuclear order's consolidation, 1986-97 -- Into a second nuclear age? Shifting and expanding problems of nuclear order, 1997-2007 -- Back to nuclear disarmament, arms control and the NPT's invigoration -- Heading for the rocks? ER -