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Original Articles

The legal status of U.S. negative security assurances to non‐nuclear weapon states

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  • The author wishes to thank Michael Barletta, John B. Rhinelander, Davis Robinson, Alfred P. Rubin, Scott D. Sagan, Charles N. Van Doren, Adam Yarmolinsky, James Walsh, and Dean Wilkening for their useful criticisms of drafts of this article. The author also wishes to thank the W. Alton Jones Foundation for its support for research at two U.S. archives of formerly classified files that relate to the subject of this article. The views expressed here are the author's alone.

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