Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology

When does nuclear latency-the technical capacity to build the bomb-enable states to pursue effective coercion?



In Leveraging Latency, Tristan A. Volpe argues that having greater capacity to build weaponry doesn't translate to greater coercive advantage. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear restraint. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten proliferation, but not so much that it becomes too difficult for them to offer n...