WELCOME TO THE Nuclear taboo database

Welcome to our database of academic literature that examines one of the most intriguing puzzles in our field: Why have nuclear weapons not been used in military conflict since 1945?

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Bell: The Nuclear Taboo and the Inevitability of Uncertainty.

Security Studies | 2023 | article | review article

Braut-Hegghammer: Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions.

Security Studies | 2023 | article | review article

Dill, Sagan and Valentino: Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply.

Security Studies | 2023 | article | review article

Joshi: Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions.

Security Studies | 2023 | article | review article

Onderco, Smetana and Etienne: Hawks in the making? European public views on nuclear weapons post-Ukraine.

Global Policy | 2023 | article | survey

Pelopidas and Egeland: Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons.

Security Studies | 2023 | article | review article

Smetana, Vranka and Rosendorf: The “Commitment Trap” Revisited: Experimental Evidence on Ambiguous Nuclear Threats.

Journal of Experimental Political Science | 2023 | article | survey

Asal, Avdan and Ackerman: Breaking taboos: Why insurgents pursue and use CBRN weapons.

Journal of Peace Research | 2022 | article

Smetana and Onderco: Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians.

International Studies Quarterly | 2022 | article | survey

Bowen, Goldfien and Graham: Public Opinion and Nuclear Use: Evidence from Factorial Experiments.

Journal of Politics | 2022 | article | survey

Doyle: Preserving the nuclear taboo after a nuclear first-use event: a nuclear ethical analysis.

The Nonproliferation Review | 2022 | article

Post and Sechser: Public Opinion, Cues, and the Use of Nuclear Weapons.

2022 | working paper | survey

Allison, Herzog and Ko: Under the Umbrella: Nuclear Crises, Extended Deterrence, and Public Opinion.

Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2022 | article | survey

Dill, Sagan and Valentino: Kettles of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Noncombatant Immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Israel.

Security Studies | 2022 | article | survey

Horschig: Israeli Public Opinion on the Use of Nuclear Weapons: Lessons From Terror Management Theory.

Journal of Global Security Studies | 2022 | article | survey

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