Civilizational Discourses in Weapons Control
This book seeks to decolonize practices of arms control and disarmament. In this endeavor it seeks to problematize our understanding of time and civilization as a rhetorical resource. The need for such an undertaking can be premised on the claim that whil
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Civilizational Discourses in Weapons Control
Ritu Mathur
Civilizational Discourses in Weapons Control
Ritu Mathur Department of Political Science & Geography University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-44942-1 ISBN 978-3-030-44943-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44943-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Brain light / Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
A Middle Eastern country has a secret nuclear weapons program. It acquired the means to develop weapons capability through legal, illegal and illicit means, starting decades ago, beginning with a US Atoms for Peace research reactor. Other means included stealing weapons-grade nuclear fuel from a secure site in Pennsylvania and diverting a shipment of uranium oxide carried by sea. It suborned corporate executives to acquire centrifuge blueprints and relied on the active help of countries such as France and apartheid South Africa to build an unsafeguarded power reactor and reprocessing plant and to test early weapon designs. This thumbnail sketch is not a description of Iran, Pakistan or North Korea, but perpetual objects of fear and sanctions in the world of nuclear proliferation: it refers to Israel. No international sanctions are applied against Israel, no pressure put on it to change its wayward course. Israel’s standing agreement with the US, the world power most set against nuclear proliferation, is simply that it will not be the first to “introduce” nuclear weapons into the region. This carefully crafted language means one thing for Israel and something else for the US, kee
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