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A 5 page paper that asks the question: Would you prefer to live in a world where all states had: nuclear and conventional weapons, only nuclear weapons or only conventional weapons? The writer presents an overview of the arguments presented by Sagan and Waltz in The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate. Based on this overview, the writer then discusses the preferred world and why. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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which all states had only conventional weapons. This is an extremely difficult decision to make because there are extreme dangers in all three worlds. We look to Sagan and
Waltzs book, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate, in the hope of gaining enough insight to make such a decision. The general overriding question that Sagan and Waltz
propose to the reader is whether we should welcome or fear the spread of nuclear weapons. The two authors take opposing viewpoints with Waltz as a nuclear optimist and Sagan
as a nuclear pessimist. Waltz comes from a neo-realist perspective and argues that the more nuclear weapons there are in the world, the less likely governments are to use
them. It is a perspective that makes an assumption that governments will not use their nuclear arsenal because they fear reprisal in the same way. This fear then would act
as a deterrent to using whatever nuclear weapons they have. Waltz discusses the fact that smaller nations are now in possession of nuclear weapons but he believes that the leaders
of these nations will be just as resistant to using them as the leaders of nations that have had nuclear power for decades. He also rejects the notion that governments
that are controlled by the military would be quicker to employ nuclear weapons than governments led by civilians. Again, it goes back to the original premise that governments will not
use their nuclear capacity because they fear having other nations use the same kinds of weapons against them. Waltzs arguments make sense on many levels. There is little doubt
that the United States, the old U.S.S.R. and China never deployed a nuclear missile at each other because they knew within seconds of their missile being in the air, others
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