Nuclear Boomerang

... toward some form of multipolarity and potentially onward to regionalization or fragmentation of international relations. Whatever configuration ultimately prevails, and regardless of how allies and adversaries of the major powers may switch places, nuclear weapons will remain one of the central features of global politics, alongside peaceful atomic energy intertwined with dual-use nuclear technologies. Therefore, the emerging polycentric world will impose far greater demands on the nuclear arms control system than international relations of past years, when security problems were predominantly ...