Nuclear Weapons Choices Governing vulnerabilities between past and future

Projektinformationen

NUCLEAR

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 759707

DOI 10.3030/759707

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 8 März 2018

Startdatum 1 September 2018

Enddatum 31 August 2024

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 480 145,00

EU-Beitrag € 1 480 145,00

Koordiniert durch

FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES
France

Ziel

Nuclear weapons choices commit populations and societies for decades and can wipe them out in matters of minutes. How is the scope of available nuclear weapons choices decided? Direct experience cannot be the answer as no one can rely on personal experience of nuclear war. Most decision-makers no longer even have the experience of the effects of such weapons either given that North Korea has been the only country testing nuclear weapons since 1998. The populations’ wishes do not qualify either, since they are very rarely consulted and only few studies on those attitudes exist. Therefore this project offers the first in depth global investigation of the grounds on which the scope of publicly acceptable nuclear weapons choices have been based since the end of nuclear testing. To do so, this project constructs an interdisciplinary research program about responsibility in an age of nuclear vulnerabilities. It investigates four ways in which nuclear weapons choices are bounded: 1) the intellectual categories we depend on to think about those issues; 2) the governance of nuclear knowledge by nuclear-weapons related institutions; 3) specific readings of the past identifying events or trends from which lessons are expected to be learned about the scope of the possible, and 4) the imaginary of possible futures as opposed to the ones deemed utopian. Combining archival research and interviews worldwide, with large-scale polling and discourse analysis of policy officials and strategists over several decades, it assesses the blinding power of categories created several decades ago and sometimes still deemed as irreplaceable lexicon of the nuclear age as well as the way in which nuclear weapons programs modify the governance of knowledge. Based on those findings, it offers a renewed notion of responsibility in the nuclear age built on full awareness of nuclear vulnerabilities in their epistemic and political dimensions, and not only the material ones.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• social sciences › sociology › governance
• humanities › other humanities › library sciences
• engineering and technology › other engineering and technologies › nuclear engineering

Schlüsselbegriffe

• nuclear weapons
• vulnerability
• responsibility
• future

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-2017-STG - ERC Starting Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2017-STG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 480 145,00
• Adresse: RUE SAINT GUILLAUME 27 ; 75341 Paris ; Frankreich
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Paris
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 480 145,00

Begünstigte (1)

FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES

Frankreich

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 480 145,00
• Adresse: RUE SAINT GUILLAUME 27 ; 75341 Paris
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Paris
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 480 145,00