
On the other hand, it speaks to doubts that I have long harbored about the theory of the nuclear revolution. As a former student of Charles Glaser, this, on the one hand, comes as somewhat of a shock. Decades after the end of the Cold War, scholars have begun to cast doubt on the things that I learned in graduate school about nuclear weapons, especially the notion that the condition of mutually assured destruction (MAD) should promote stability among the great powers.

Be sure to check out the full roundtable.īrendan Rittenhouse Green, The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)īeating up on the theory of the nuclear revolution has become a popular enterprise these days. Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from “ Book Review Roundtable: The Revolution that Failed” from our sister publication, the Texas National Security Review.
