Academic Sources: Gartzke and Kroenig on “Nukes with Numbers”

In the last ten years, there has been an explosion of quantitative research on nuclear weapons. The basic structure of these models is to compare a variety of conflict outcomes across dyads of different types: those in which both countries have nuclear weapons, those in which neither has nuclear weapons and asymmetric dyads in which one country is a nuclear power and the other isn’t. Conflict outcomes are measured in a variety of ways, from machine-coded capture of diplomatic interactions, to va

Source: Peterson Institute (PIIE)