Political Scientists and Historians in Search of the Bomb

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Notes

1 Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: An Enduring Debate (New York, NY: W.W. Norton 2012).

2 Francis J. Gavin, ‘Politics, History and the Ivory Tower-Policy Gap in the Nuclear Proliferation Debate,’ Journal of Strategic Studies 35/4 (August 2012), 576.

3 Ibid., 576.

4 Ibid., 586.

5 Ibid., 577.

6 Ibid.

7 Francis J. Gavin, ‘Blasts from the Past: Proliferation Lessons from the 1960s,’ International Security 29/3 (Winter 2004/2005), 100–35; Francis J. Gavin, ‘Same as it Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War,’ International Security 34/3 (Winter 2009/10), 7–37; and Francis J. Gavin, Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP 2012).

8 Gavin, ‘Ivory Tower-Policy Gap,’ 595.

9 Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (London: Macmillan and Company 1893), 169.

10 Gavin, ‘Ivory Tower-Policy Gap,’ 580–1.

11 Ibid., 578.

12 Sagan and Waltz, Spread of Nuclear Weapons, 40.

13 Gavin, ‘Ivory Tower-Policy Gap,’ 576–7, 585.

14 Sagan and Waltz, Spread of Nuclear Weapons, ix.

15 Gavin, ‘Ivory Tower-Policy Gap,’ 580–1.

16 Scott D. Sagan, ‘Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?: Three Models in Search of a Bomb,’ International Security 21/3 (Winter 1996–1997), 54–86; Scott D. Sagan, ‘The Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation,’ Annual Review of Political Science 14 (2011), 225–44; Scott D. Sagan (ed.) Inside Nuclear South Asia (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP 2009); Scott D. Sagan, ‘Shared Responsibility for Nuclear Disarmament,’ Daedalus 138/4 (Fall 2009), 157–68; and Scott D. Sagan, ‘Keeping the Bomb from Iran,’ Foreign Affairs 85/5 (Sept./Oct. 2006), 45–60.

17 Gavin, ‘Ivory Tower-Policy Gap,’ 580–1.

18 Scott D. Sagan, ‘Nuclear Latency and Nuclear Proliferation,’ in William C. Potter with Gaukar Mukhatzhanova (eds), Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP 2010), 80–101; and Sagan, ‘Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation.’

19 Gavin, ‘Ivory Tower-Policy Gap,’ 596.

20 See Scott D. Sagan, ‘Nuclear Doctrine and Nuclear Disarmament,’ in Embassy of Italy in Washington DC (ed.), Moving Toward a Nuclear Weapons Free World: Proceedings of the Round Table, Embassy of Italy, 13 Feb. 2012, 83–92.

21 Sagan and Waltz, Spread of Nuclear Weapons, 3.

22 Ibid., 37.

23 Kenneth N. Waltz, ‘Structural Realism After the Cold War,’ International Security 25/1 (Summer 2000), 5–41.

24 Kenneth N. Waltz, ‘Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,’ Foreign Affairs 91/4 (July/Aug. 2012), 2–5.

25 Gavin, ‘Ivory Tower-Policy Gap,’ 596, 597.

26 See David E. Sanger, ‘Suppose We Just Let Iran Have the Bomb,’ New York Times, 19 March 2006, <www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/weekinreview/19sanger.ART0.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0>; David E. Sanger, ‘Debate Grows on Nuclear Containment of Iran,’ New York Times, 13 March 2010, <www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/weekinreview/14sanger.html>; and Jennifer Parker, ‘Abizaid: We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran,’ ABC News, 17 Sept. 2007, <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2007/09/abizaid-we-can/>. Other political leaders have clearly disagreed with Waltz's position on Iran. For example, see the comments of Benjamin Netanyahu in Meet The Press, transcript, 16 Sept. 2012, <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49051097/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/september-benjamin-netanyahu-susan-rice-keith-ellison-peter-king-bob-woodward-jeffrey-goldberg-andrea-mitchell/#.UL1RSmfIvTp>.

27 See Scott D. Sagan, ‘The Case for No First Use,’ Survival 51/3 (June–July 2009), 163–182; and Morton Halperin, Bruno Tertrais, Keith B. Payne, K. Subrahmanyam and Scott D. Sagan, ‘The Case for No First Use: An Exchange,’ Survival 51/5 (Oct.-Nov. 2009), 17–46.