Nuclear peace

Nuclear peace is a theory of international relations that argues that under some circumstances nuclear weapons can induce stability and decrease the chances of crisis escalation. In particular, nuclear weapons are said to have induced stability during the Cold War, when both the US and the USSR possessed mutual second strike retaliation capability, eliminating the possibility of nuclear victory for either side. Proponents of nuclear peace argue that controlled nuclear proliferation may be beneficial for inducing stability. Critics of nuclear peace argue that nuclear proliferation not only increases the chance of interstate nuclear conflict, but increases the chances of nuclear material falling into the hands of violent non-state groups who are free from the threat of nuclear retaliation.

The major debate on this issue has been between Kenneth Waltz, the founder of neorealist theory in international relations, and Scott Sagan, a leading proponent of organizational theories in international politics. Waltz generally argues that "more may be better," contending that new nuclear states will use their acquired nuclear capabilities to deter threats and preserve peace. Sagan argues that "more will be worse", since new nuclear states often lack adequate organizational controls over their new weapons, which makes for a high risk of either deliberate or accidental nuclear war, or theft of nuclear material by terrorists to perpetrate nuclear terrorism.

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UN chief calls upon Tehran to renounce nuclear weapons

Dawn 23 Jan 2025
Iran has always said its programme is entirely peaceful and it has the right to enrich uranium to any level it wants ... Iran insists on its right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and denies it is seeking an atomic weapons capability.
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UN nuclear chief urges dialogue between Trump and Iran

Independent online (SA) 22 Jan 2025
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog called on the Trump administration and Iran ... Iran insists on its right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and denies it is seeking an atomic weapons capability.
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UN nuclear chief urges dialogue between Trump, Iran

The Daily Tribune - Bahrain 22 Jan 2025
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog called on the Trump administration and Iran ... Iran insists on its right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and denies it is seeking an atomic weapons capability.
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[INTERVIEW] Military affairs expert-turned-lawmaker calls martial law 'shocking, wrong'

Korea Times 22 Jan 2025
Yu Yong-weon stresses using nuclear potential as leverage with US ... He suggested this would require revising the U.S.-South Korea Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation, signed in 2015.
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Iran tries to calm N-concerns as UN warns on enrichment

Gulf-Times 22 Jan 2025
Iran has said its programme is entirely peaceful and it has the right to enrich uranium to any level it wants.“Before it was (producing) more or less seven kilograms (of uranium enriched to up to 60%) per month, now it’s above 30 or more than that.
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Iran tries to calm nuclear concerns as UN warns on enrichment

CyprusMail 22 Jan 2025
Iran delivered a conciliatory message to Western leaders in Davos on Wednesday, with a top official denying it wants nuclear weapons and offering talks about opportunities, days after its arch adversary Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
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Iran Is ‘Pressing the Gas Pedal’ on Uranium Enrichment, IAEA Chief Says

The Algemeiner 22 Jan 2025
Western powers called the step a serious escalation and said there was no civil justification for enriching to that level and that no other country had done so without producing nuclear weapons.
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New Syrian administration takes correct steps, needs help to achieve stability: Prime Minister

The Peninsula 22 Jan 2025
... are rejected, His Excellency stressed, highlighting that it is the interest of all to have a region free of nuclear weapons and no country should be prevented from securing a peaceful nuclear energy.
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UN ambassador pick queried by panel

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 22 Jan 2025
Stefanik, a fierce Trump ally who repeated his idea of "peace through strength," was asked about her views on a number of global issue, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine as well as the Iranian nuclear program -- all items on the U.N.
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Stefanik: Israel has biblical right to Judea and Samaria - Israel Today

Israel Today 22 Jan 2025
Stefanik said that she believed that the possibility of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon is “the most significant threat to world peace” and that she believed that the United States should reverse ...
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki request Trump visit to teach ‘reality’

Asahi News 21 Jan 2025
President Donald Trump to visit the prefectural capital in an effort toward nuclear disarmament and world peace ... leaders to make decisions and take actions toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
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A-bomb survivors voice concern over nukes under Trump presidency

Kyodo 21 Jan 2025
The 82-year-old participated in the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo last month after Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, won the prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.
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Atomic bomb survivor: ‘We want the UN to pressure Putin to end the war’

Catalan News 21 Jan 2025
Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.".
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Japan to coordinate with U.S. as Trump calls North Korea nuclear power

Kyodo 21 Jan 2025
... a "nuclear power." ... He instead stressed the importance of joint efforts to urge North Korea to "completely abandon" its nuclear and missile development, which threatens regional peace and security.
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West irritated by Iran’s progress in heavy water industry: Atomic chief

Press TV 21 Jan 2025
The official made the comments during a speech in Tehran where he defended the use of peaceful nuclear technology for responding to Iran's various needs. He said that Iran’s only nuclear power plant on ...

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