http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3000/luke-wilcock Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:24:25 -0400 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:24:25 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1164/nuclear-weapons-proliferation-and-the-efficacy-of-deterrence By Luke Wilcock - Nuclear weapons were first used in anger during the Second World War against the Japanese. The Horishima and Nagasaki experience left nobody in any doubt that nuclear weapons were unique. Never before had so much destruction been meted out so suddenly by just two bombs. By the mid-1960s the number of countries openly possessing nuclear weapons had risen to five. The United States had been the first, closely followed by the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China. The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty set out to prevent the further spread of nuclear weapons by making it illegal for... Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1164/nuclear-weapons-proliferation-and-the-efficacy-of-deterrence