POL 442 - WMD: Control, Alt, Deter?

This course investigates the origins, understandings, and effects of the spread of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) through the lens of science and technology studies. Topics include why attempts to control weapons programs succeed or fail; how narratives around weapons alter domestic and international orders; and the dynamics of WMD crises after deterrence failures.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group II
Prerequisite(s): POL 240
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Analyze institutions, formations, languages, structures, or processes, whether social, political, religious, economic, cultural, intellectual or other.
Think in sophisticated ways about causation, social and/or historical change, human cognition, or the relationship between individuals and society, or engage with social, political, religious or economic theory in other areas.