Nuclear time: temporal metaphors of the nuclear present

Burke, Anthony

doi:10.1080/21624887.2016.1162394

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“…One can at least agree with him on the fact that "there seems to be some consensus on what we are trying to avoid even if we cannot agree on what we are for" (7). Indeed, Herz did not agree with this managerial approach, but clearly expressed that the ther-3 While it is true that important reflexive voices, which think beyond the three modalities of self-censorship defined here and articulate a notion of responsibility, like Nick Ritchie (2009Ritchie ( , 2012Ritchie ( , 2013 and Anthony Burke (2009Burke ( , 2016b (Zhang and Chang 2016).…”

Section: Epistemological Self-censorship: Denial Of the Normative Foumentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Explicitly reflexive security studies scholars have not sustainably addressed nuclear weapons issues in spite of moments of engagement-that is, the post-Cold War, the Obama administration following the 2009 Prague speech, and the humanitarian impact initiative (Booth and Wheeler 1992;Burke 2009;Masco 2015;Peoples 2016;Ritchie 2012Ritchie , 2013. As a consequence, Buzan and Hansen's (2009, 21) remark that "the majority of writings in ISS [International Security Studies] do not go to great length to discuss their analytical, normative, and epistemological assumptions" also applies to nuclear studies.…”

Section: Epistemological Self-censorship: Denial Of the Normative Foumentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies

Pélopidas¹

2016

J Glob Secur Stud

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confidence: 95%

Section: Epistemological Self-censorship: Denial Of the Normative Foumentioning

confidence: 99%

Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies

Pélopidas¹

2016

J Glob Secur Stud

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“…Yet in all these cases their power, effect and intent were attenuated and ambiguous: armed aggression between states was outlawed but permitted within them; genocide excluded politicide and became near‐impossible to prosecute; the law of armed conflict contained permissive flaws and ambiguities that exposed non‐combatants to violations; and human rights denied the rights of nature (Burke et al, 2014; Burke, 2019). And in the face of that most planetary of risks the nuclear non‐proliferation regime failed to prevent the creation of new nuclear powers and tens of thousands of city‐killing weapons (Burke, 2016). A cynic might point to the persistence of power politics, the endurance of the institution of war, and the tragic trade‐off between national hypocrisy and cosmopolitan hope.…”

Section: Anthropocene Lawmentioning

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An architecture for a net zero world: Global climate governance beyond the epoch of failure

Burke

2022

Global Policy

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In the wake of the 2021 Glasgow meeting of the Paris Agreement, where states embedded a 2050 pathway to net zero that will overshoot the Earth's remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C, attention is turning to the flaws of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This article highlights ways in which it blocks effective climate action, which has been acknowledged by states who are now pursuing voluntary and nonbinding initiatives on coal, forests, and oil and gas. The article assesses new proposals for treaties on deforestation, the elimination of coal, and a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty. It argues that states should take these proposals to the UN General Assembly and adopt them as binding treaties consistent with holding global heating at 1.5°C. Following the model of the Nuclear Weapons Convention it further argues that these treaties should be folded into a full Greenhouse Convention, supported by a powerful International Climate Agency, to secure a net zero world. Drawing upon new proposals for an Earth‐centric law that takes in the totality of social‐natural processes at the planetary scale, these proposals could form part of a reformed international legal architecture that could be equal to the diabolical governance challenges of the Anthropocene.

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“…В контексте же ядерного оружия из всего культурного измерения реальности особый интерес представляет темпоральность -представления о природе времени и направлении его течения (Allan 2018: 11). Ряд работ уже обращали внимание, что возникновение ядерного оружия требует переосмысления наших представлений о времени (Mandelbaum 1981: 228-229;Burke 2016;Hamilton 2018), однако проблема устойчивости ядерной анархии в них прямо не ставилась.…”

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Is Nuclear Anarchy Sustainable? A Temporal Approach

Uchaev

Kvartalnov

2022

Vestnik MGIMO-universiteta

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The article develops a novel temporal approach to the sustainability of nuclear anarchy. The extant literature offers two opposite perspectives on the topic: some scholars argue that nuclear anarchy is unsustainable, since it will inevitably either lead to a catastrophic nuclear war or evolve into a hierarchical world order. Their opponents doubt the inevitability of nuclear war in a system of sovereign states and/or its catastrophic nature. However, the debate, as it stands now, ignores the fact that both technology and social structures are embedded in – and mediated by – cultures and worldviews. In particular, both nuclear weapons and interstate anarchy are embedded in specific temporalities.Taking this fact into account, we identify and compare perceptions of time that are interrelated with nuclear weapons, on one hand, and international anarchy, on the other. The article reveals a temporal contradiction of nuclear anarchy: while nuclear weapons imply a potential finitude of humanity, the system of sovereign states is intrinsically connected with an indefinite temporality. We derive two theoretical implications form the concept of temporal contradiction. First, a realization of finite temporality should subvert the legitimacy of an anarchic world order and encourage limitations on national sovereignty. Second, international anarchy should ‘eternalize’ nuclear weapons, i.e., reinterpret them as compatible with the eternity of human civilization. Familiar events of nuclear history including the emergence and decline of arms control regimes, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the evolution of the anti-nuclear movement are interpreted here as empirical evidence in favor of the theoretical implications described above.Thus, the concept of temporal contradiction provides another argument in favor of the idea that nuclear anarchy is unsustainable in the long run, since the proliferation of the finite temporality leads to international hierarchy, whereas persistent indefinite temporality masks the severity of the nuclear threat, making nuclear war more conceivable and probable.

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Nuclear time: temporal metaphors of the nuclear present

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies

Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies

An architecture for a net zero world: Global climate governance beyond the epoch of failure

Is Nuclear Anarchy Sustainable? A Temporal Approach

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