Symbols of mass destruction: nuclear symbolism in the United States

• Grant number: 18/04455-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2018
• End date: April 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Feliciano de Sá Guimarães
• Grantee: Orion Siufi Noda
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/11895-5 - Symbolism and the identity-behaviour nexus: symbolic perceptions of US nuclear history and the NPT, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Nuclear politics and weapons often draw security and military ideas to the mind. Nevertheless, there is still an entire shadowed area of study within the realm of nuclear politics and weapons due to its unorthodox nature: nuclear symbolism. Current scholarship fails to acknowledge the importance of nuclear symbolism for the field of international security and, more broadly, international relations. This research aims to shed light on the non-orthodox facet of nuclear politics and weapons, linking the concept of nuclear symbolism with that of nuclear identity and State behaviour, through a case study of the USA since the end of the second world war. (AU)

Scientific publications

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NODA, ORION. wolf in sheep's clothing? The NPT and symbolic proliferatio. CONTEMPORARY SECURITY POLICY, v. 43, n. 1, SI, OCT 2021. (18/04455-6)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

NODA, Orion Siufi. Symbols of mass destruction: the bomb is what States make of It. 2023. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI) São Paulo.