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+====Deterrence theory is the root cause of nuclear fear making nuclear weapons a source of threat construction==== |
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+**Bondgraham 09 **(Darwin, sociologist affiliated with UC Santa Barbara and a board member of the Los Alamos Study Group. "The ‘Nuclear Threat,’ and Other Mystical Approaches of Arms Control." pgs 15-16, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 15 2016 |
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+Critical examination of these concepts and what they mean to the established powers acting through |
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+AND |
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+of threat, coercion, and intimidation rather than of military victory."xlii |
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+====Nuclear fear justifies extinction with the death of the other ==== |
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+**Masco ‘13** (Joseph P., Prof. of Anthropology and Social Sciences @ The University of Chicago, "Terror as normality" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 69(6), pp. 26–32) //ZB Oakwood AW Cut August 10 2016 |
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+The SIOP target list would continue to grow through the 1980s, eventually including tens |
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+AND |
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+what would it take today to consider an actual end to such ends? |
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+====The alternative is to recreate the policy of the 1AC on the grounds of a defetishizing critique ==== |
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+(Anne Harrington de Santana, She has a PhD from Department of Political Science from University of Chicago, "U.S. Nuclear Policy and Fetishism of Force," 13 March 2009, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 29 2016 |
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+The success of a defetishizing critique is independent of the success of the positive prescriptions |
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+AND |
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+evaluate some of the current policy proposal in light of these methodological commitments. |
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+==Links== |
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+===Nuke Fetishization=== |
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+====Their idea that Nuclear weapons can protect us is fueled by a nuclear fetish which leaves us vulnerable==== |
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+(Anne Harrington de Santana, She has a PhD from Department of Political Science from University of Chicago, "U.S. Nuclear Policy and Fetishism of Force," 13 March 2009, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 29 2016 |
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+Defetishizing critique is "a procedure of showing that what appears as a given is |
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+acknowledge that there is something about nuclear weapons that exceeds a materialist explanation. |
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+====Nuclear weapons complete the fetishism of force==== |
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+(Anne Harrington de Santana, She has a PhD from Department of Political Science from University of Chicago, "U.S. Nuclear Policy and Fetishism of Force," 13 March 2009, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 29 2016 |
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+The fetishism of force is specific to the 19thand 20th century development of the nation |
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+AND |
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+, I privilege the structural nature of fetishism more particular to Marx’s usage. |
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+====These social functions ensure nuclear development==== |
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+(Anne Harrington de Santana, She has a PhD from Department of Political Science from University of Chicago, "U.S. Nuclear Policy and Fetishism of Force," 13 March 2009, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 29 2016 |
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+As the culmination of the fetishism of force, nuclear weapons function as a fetish |
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+AND |
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+to even the limited achievements such as the North Korean test in 2006. |
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+===Nuke Mystification=== |
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+====The mystification of nuclear weapons forecloses critical interrogation leading to a perpetuation of the hegemonic power structures - only demystification creates political opportunities to shift away from nuclear weapons ==== |
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+**Bondgraham 09** (Darwin, sociologist affiliated with UC Santa Barbara and a board member of the Los Alamos Study Group. "The ‘Nuclear Threat,’ and Other Mystical Approaches of Arms Control." pgs 4-5, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 15 2016 |
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+Although created in the forge of science and technology, few subjects have been more |
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+scholars, or a new generation of antinuclear, anti-imperial scholars. |
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+====Foreign policy elites use this mystification to justify increasing nuclear capacities, making the military the "defender" of democracy. That results in anti-democratic practices because elites can go against public opinion- Latin America interventions prove==== |
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+**Bondgraham 09** (Darwin, sociologist affiliated with UC Santa Barbara and a board member of the Los Alamos Study Group. "The ‘Nuclear Threat,’ and Other Mystical Approaches of Arms Control." pgs 7-9, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 15 2016 |
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+In bluntly characterizing the US system of government as a democracy, and especially by |
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+arsenal, when really this is no better than a raison d'etat.xxvi |
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+===Deterrence Theory === |
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+====Deterrence theory is the root cause of nuclear fear making nuclear weapons a source of threat construction==== |
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+**Bondgraham 09 **(Darwin, sociologist affiliated with UC Santa Barbara and a board member of the Los Alamos Study Group. "The ‘Nuclear Threat,’ and Other Mystical Approaches of Arms Control." pgs 15-16, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 15 2016 |
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+Critical examination of these concepts and what they mean to the established powers acting through |
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+AND |
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+of threat, coercion, and intimidation rather than of military victory."xlii |
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+====Deterrence theory is the mature expression of fetishism of force==== |
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+(Anne Harrington de Santana, She has a PhD from Department of Political Science from University of Chicago, "U.S. Nuclear Policy and Fetishism of Force," 13 March 2009, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 29 2016 |
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+In so far as Rational Deterrence Theory provided the intellectual framework through which Cold War |
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+the same time leaving U.S. cities more vulnerable than ever before |
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+===Nonproliferation=== |
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+====A focus on nonproliferation shifts away from disarmament which results in the perpetuation of the nuclear stockpile- eliminating the pretentious link between disarmament and nonproliferation is key to challenge our approach to nuclear weaponry ==== |
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+**Falk 15** (Richard, an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. "The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1)" https://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/the-nuclear- challenge-70- years-after- hiroshima-and- nagasaki-1/, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 28 2016 |
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+The liberal version of this deceptive Faustian Bargain is the claim that the NPT and |
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+abolition of nuclear weaponry in a period of not more than seven years. |
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+====The fetish of nuclear weapons defines our international relations and the NPT codified the nuclear hierarchy==== |
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+(Anne Harrington de Santana, She has a PhD from Department of Political Science from University of Chicago, "U.S. Nuclear Policy and Fetishism of Force," 13 March 2009, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 29 2016 |
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+The hegemonic interpretation of the new technologies that had been used to produce the atomic |
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+a structure of social relations defined historically by the originating event of WWII. |
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+==Impact == |
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+===War - Theory=== |
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+====The "nuclear threat" does not represent an existential threat, but rather leads geopolitical violence that transcends the nation-state and is caused by the existence of nuclear weapons. ==== |
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+**Bondgraham 09 **(Darwin, sociologist affiliated with UC Santa Barbara and a board member of the Los Alamos Study Group. "The ‘Nuclear Threat,’ and Other Mystical Approaches of Arms Control." pgs 10-12, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 15 2016 |
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+The mystifying aspects of NTI's work (as well as most other leading arms control |
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+, but there are not so common interests in the nuclear age.xxxiii |
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+====Nuclear fear normalizes the notion of extinction and makes nuclear war possible==== |
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+**Masco ‘13** (Joseph P., Prof. of Anthropology and Social Sciences @ The University of Chicago, "Terror as normality" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 69(6), pp. 26–32) //ZB Oakwood AW Cut August 10 2016 |
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+The Cold War nuclear stand-off installed existential threat as a core structure of |
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+closer in an attempt to fix its location with ever more precision. |
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+===War – Empirics=== |
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+====The discourse of nuclear fear leads to preemptive wars, imperialism, and other atrocities==== |
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+**Masco 13 **(Joseph Masco, PhD, UC San Diego 1999, Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences at University of Chicago, writes and teaches courses on science and technology, U.S. national security culture, political ecology, mass media, and critical theory. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2006), which won the 2008 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the 2006 Robert K. Merton Prize from the Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociology Association. His work as been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His current work examines the evolution of the national security state in the United States, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, technology, and threat perception within a national public sphere. Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination, Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, pp. 278-281) //ZB Oakwood AW Cut August 10 2016 |
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+Reclaiming the emotional history of the atomic bomb is crucial today, as nuclear fear |
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+the psychosocial space defined by the once and future promise of nuclear ruins. |
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+====The discourse of nuclear fear leads to preemptive wars, imperialism, and other atrocities==== |
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+**Masco 13 **(Joseph Masco, PhD, UC San Diego 1999, Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences at University of Chicago, writes and teaches courses on science and technology, U.S. national security culture, political ecology, mass media, and critical theory. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2006), which won the 2008 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the 2006 Robert K. Merton Prize from the Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociology Association. His work as been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His current work examines the evolution of the national security state in the United States, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, technology, and threat perception within a national public sphere. Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination, Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, pp. 278-281) //ZB Oakwood AW Cut August 10 2016 |
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+Reclaiming the emotional history of the atomic bomb is crucial today, as nuclear fear |
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+the psychosocial space defined by the once and future promise of nuclear ruins. |
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+====The inability of the nuclear stockpile to create security results in a self-fulfilling prophecy of violence- Iraq proves==== |
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+**Bondgraham 09 **(Darwin, sociologist affiliated with UC Santa Barbara and a board member of the Los Alamos Study Group. "The ‘Nuclear Threat,’ and Other Mystical Approaches of Arms Control." pgs 13-14, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 15 2016 |
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+In a world in which two states (US and Russia) possess ~~95 |
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+latter definition is more in agreement with prevailing legal interpretations of "threat." |
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+===Warming=== |
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+====The fear of a nuclear war trades off with efforts to deal with climate change==== |
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+(Joseph P. Masco, he has a PhD from Department of Anthroplogy and Social Sciences from University of San Diego, "Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis," 14 November 2008, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 9 2016 |
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+In other words, the Katrina as Hiroshima discourse is an act of translation, |
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+biosphere requires nothing less than a post-national vision of American power. |
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+====Warming outweighs Nuclear War==== |
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+(Joseph P. Masco, he has a PhD from Department of Anthroplogy and Social Sciences from University of San Diego, "Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis," 14 November 2008, PDF, ~~RA~~) Oakwood AW Cut August 9 2016 |
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+Recent studies of large-scale nuclear war (5000- to 10,000 |
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+a security discourse that frequently identified nuclear war itself as the "unthinkable." |
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+===Security Failure=== |
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+====Nuclear weapons provide no material protection and causes security to fail==== |
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+The third theme is personalization. By this Pietz is referring to "the material |
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+of belief which may or may not correspond to the level of reality. |
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+====Affinity politics is key to stop the reproduction of hegemonic security ==== |
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+**Davis 15** (Sasha, Professor of Geography and Environmental Science @ University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, "The Empire’s Edge: Militarization, Resistance and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific", pg. 22- 3, PN) Oakwood AW Cut August 20 2016 |
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+As far as tactics, the affinity-seeking power of the newest social movements |
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+security comes from a nity and connection rather than domination and military violence. |
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+===Scholarship Key=== |
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+====Scholarship is key to shed light on US nuclear internal struggles and policy formation- only that creates solutions to solve proliferation ==== |
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+There is also a lack of attention on the fragmented political forces in the United |
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+budget is approximately as large as the rest of the world's combined.lii |
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+===Debate Key=== |
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+====Using public spaces like debate forces people to be confronted with the mystery and stigma of nuclear weapons==== |
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+**Masco 5 **(Joseph Masco, PhD, UC San Diego 1999, Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences at University of Chicago, writes and teaches courses on science and technology, U.S. national security culture, political ecology, mass media, and critical theory. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2006), which won the 2008 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the 2006 Robert K. Merton Prize from the Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociology Association. His work as been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His current work examines the evolution of the national security state in the United States, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, technology, and threat perception within a national public sphere. "The Billboard Campaign: The Los Alamos Study Group and the Nuclear Public Sphere", 2005, http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/17/3/487.citation) //ZB Oakwood AW Cut August 10 2016 |
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+In the domestic realm of U.S. politics, the nuclear weapons complex |
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+forced activists to seek an alternative public sphere to mobilize for change. |