{"id":2381,"date":"2017-02-14T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2019-07-07T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T12:10:27","slug":"vulnerability-of-knowledge-and-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/vulnerability-of-knowledge-and-nuclear\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability of Knowledge and Nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when all states with nuclear weapons are launching multi-decade programs to \u201cmodernize\u201d their arsenal, it is important to recognize that our societies\u2019 knowledge about nuclear weaponry is very poor.<\/p>\n<p>This poor knowledge, according to Beno\u00eet P\u00e9lopidas, is the result of three phenomena:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overconfidence in the accuracy of the available knowledge used to analyze and address security and defense issues.<\/li>\n<li>Overconfidence that lessons from the past are learned.<\/li>\n<li>Unanimous agreement on the lessons drawn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Holding a chair of excellence from Sorbonne Paris Cit\u00e9, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/ceri\/en\/cerispire-user\/17061\/17071\" target=\"_blank\">Beno\u00eet P\u00e9lopidas<\/a> intends to study this issue, focusing on the knowledge (and lack thereof!) of populations and political and military elites.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond its research goals, this project seeks to contribute to a more informed public debate. Are there alternatives to plans to modernize nuclear arsenals? What fears about these weapons are warranted at a time when the Trump presidency is raising concerns?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the first publication from this research program:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jogss.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/jogss\/1\/4\/326.full.pdf?ijkey=1bovepyyzkz0Y97&amp;keytype=ref\" target=\"_blank\">Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies<\/a>, Beno\u00eet P\u00e9lopidas, Journal of Global Security Studies, December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when all states with nuclear weapons are launching multi-decade programs to \u201cmodernize\u201d their arsenal, it is important to recognize that our societies\u2019<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32,133],"tags":[202,69,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/?lang=en"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/?lang=en"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/?lang=en"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/?lang=en"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?lang=en&post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/?lang=en"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2699\/?lang=en"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2716\/?lang=en"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?lang=en&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?lang=en&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?lang=en&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}