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Attitudes to nuclear defence. An investigation of processes of change in elite and non-elite belief systems.

Coward, Louise
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2010-02-22T16:47:18Z
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Dando, Malcolm
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Nuclear weapons, Nuclear deterrence, Nuclear disarmament, Security, Attitudes and assumptions, Attitude change, Opinion polls
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University of Bradford
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Postgraduate School of Studies in Peace Studies
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1987
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The recent developments in negotiations to reduce nuclear weapons in Europe mark a watershed in attitudes towards nuclear deterrence and security. On the one side lie all the old beliefs and assumptions about nuclear defence and security that have been common parlance for the last forty years and more. On the other side lies a unique opportunity to develop a new relationship of increased mutual trust between East and West that could ultimately lead to substantial reductions in the world's nuclear arsenal. The object of this thesis is to establish how much information already exists about attitudes towards nuclear deterrence and the processes of attitude change. From there, to extend these boundaries of knowledge in the belief that if we are able to understand more exactly what people think about nuclear deterrence, why they hold these attitudes and how attitudes change then we will be in a better position to ease the transitional stage between one set of attitudes and another.
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