A Monsoon Instead of a Gentle Breeze: Creeping Nuclearization in the Asia-Pacific

... even almost a quarter of century ago during the so-called “golden age of nuclear arms control”. Alexander Yermakov: Don’t Trust and Don’t Verify. New Normality... ... classification, in turn, reflects the unevenness of the distribution relating to the presence of nuclear weapons and the general attitude towards this topic. The following paper attempts... ... the self-organizing stratified nature of the nuclear non-proliferation regime in the Asia-Pacific. This hierarchical structure – even with its shifting boundaries– contrasts...