![]() ![]() Realists generally believe that states must fight for their own survival this is due to their theory that the world is in a state of anarchy (Mearsheimer 2006, 71-88). The concept of ‘survival’ within an anarchic world is a strong argument in understanding a state’s desire to seek nuclear arms. ![]() This highlights states working towards gaining nuclear arms in the interest of their survival, and this initiated the Cold War. However, after WW2 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) accelerated its nuclear development program, due to fears that the US and their Allies would attack them (Holloway 1995, 271-273). The first nuclear fight for survival ended in 1945 when the United States (US) used two nuclear bombs against Japan to bomb the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Carroll 2007). Nuclear proliferation refers to the spread of nuclear weapons and the technology used to produce such weapons, and to the process by which a state develops and/or comes into possession of nuclear weapons (US Department of Defence 2005). ![]()
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