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Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Scarsdale ZG | Judge: Becca Traber

Adv 1

Pakistan escalating its tactical nuke program right now because of India's nuclear capacity—it's the central military issue in South Asia-Kargil proves

Micallef 2/7 
Joseph V. Micallef, 2-7-2016, "," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-v-micallef/the-other-bomb-pakistans_b_9180504.html Best Selling Military History and World Affairs Author and Keynote Speaker VP
In recent years the concern over nuclear proliferation has centered on Iran's ongoing effort to
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and continues to be a major source of conflict between the two countries.

Pakistani escalation is driven by the perception of India's developing nuclear program

Dalton and Krepon, cofounder of the Stimson center, 15
Dalton, Toby, and Michael Krepon. "A Normal Nuclear Pakistan." (2015): 3. Carnegieendowment.org. Stimson Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Web. 9 Aug. 2016. VP Michael Krepon is the co-founder of the Stimson Center.  He worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment, the State Department, and on Capitol Hill.  His areas of expertise are reducing nuclear dangers — with a regional specialization in South Asia — and improving national and international security in outer space.
Pakistan has worked hard and successfully to build diverse nuclear capabilities. It will retain
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and societal weaknesses, Pakistan's nuclear weapons do not address its internal challenges.

The Pakistani tactical nuke threat is the principal motivation for India's "cold start doctrine".

Micallef 2/7 
Joseph V. Micallef, 2-7-2016, "The Other Bomb," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-v-micallef/the-other-bomb-pakistans_b_9180504.html Best Selling Military History and World Affairs Author and Keynote Speaker VP
Since 1990, given its record of defeat in conventional military conflicts with India,
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however, believe that the "Cold Start" Doctrine is a fact.

Cold start's bad:

Cold start accelerates Pakistani development of battlefield nukes-escalates any confrontation—It's also impossible to guard them-their close range nature means they need to be in the field, under local command, and close to the border

Micallef 2/7 
Joseph V. Micallef, 2-7-2016, "The Other Bomb," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-v-micallef/the-other-bomb-pakistans_b_9180504.html Best Selling Military History and World Affairs Author and Keynote Speaker VP
Battlefield nuclear weapons pose a whole different level of security risks than conventional nuclear weapons
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weapons once they were deployed or who would be responsible for guarding them.

Cold start increases risk of border war and contributes to an already existing arms race that goes nuclear—conflict is inevitable, it's a question of how that conflict can be resolved

Hundley 12
Tom Hundley, 9-5-2012, "Pakistan and India: Race to the End," Pulitzer Center, http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/pakistan-nuclear-weapons-battlefield-india-arms-race-energy-cold-war VP
Pakistan, with an estimated 90 to 120 warheads, is now believed to be
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territory creates the kind of atmosphere that greatly shortens the distance to apocalypse."

Regional nuclear war causes extinction

Telegraph 13
~"India-Pakistan nuclear war could 'end human civilization," Dec 10 2013, Telegraph~
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan would set off a global famine that could
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possible - not certain, but possible - extinction of the human race.

Also structural violence

Robock, environmental sciences prof @ Rutgers, 12
Robock, Alan, and Owen B. Toon. "Self-Assured Destruction: The Climate Impacts of Nuclear War." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68.5 (2012): 66-74. Rutgers.edu. DOI: 10.1177/0096340212459127 Sage Pub. Web. 10 Aug. 2016. Alan Robock is an American climatologist. He is currently Professor II in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University VP
A nuclear war between Russia and the United States, even after the arsenal reductions
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regional conflict has the potential to cause mass starvation worldwide through environmental effects.

1AC-Solvency

Thus the plan: The Republic of India should prohibit the production of nuclear power. Implementation by normal means. I reserve the right to clarify.

Nuclear weapons rely on civilian nuclear power facilities

Green 15
"The myth of the peaceful atom - debunking the misinformation peddled by the nuclear industry and its supporters" Jim Green, Nuclear Monitor ~#804, 28 May 2015 VP
Ostensibly civil nuclear materials and facilities can be used in support of nuclear weapons programs
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with a nuclear weapons capability". (AAP, October 16, 2006.)

India cheats on regulations—military development hides under the pretense of peaceful reactors

Green 15
"The myth of the peaceful atom - debunking the misinformation peddled by the nuclear industry and its supporters" Jim Green, Nuclear Monitor ~#804, 28 May 2015 VP
Firstly, power reactors have been used directly in weapons programs: India refuses to
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.~44~ Pakistan had one power reactor operating before it developed weapons.

Root cause claims ignore complexity within politics

Sharpe, lecturer, philosophy and psychoanalytic studies, and Goucher, senior lecturer, literary and psychoanalytic studies – Deakin University, '10
(Matthew and Geoff, Žižek and Politics: An Introduction, p. 231 – 233)
We realise that this argument, which we propose as a new 'quilting' framework
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today pointedly reject Theory's legitimacy, neither reading it nor taking it seriously.

India has been expanding its domestic uranium mining, which displaces indigenous peoples in an act of violent colonization.

Bhadra 11
"INDIA'S NUCLEAR POWER PROBLEM" Cairo Review. Monamie Bhadra ~phd Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO). She is currently a junior fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies~
After the U.S.-India nuclear deal, the central government set its 
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land, to which they have cultural, economic, and emotional attachments.

Suffering reps cause compassion—alt causes inaction

Porter 6, Prof and head of the School of International Studies at the University of South Australia, (Elisabeth, Hypatia 21.4, project muse)
I have explained what constitutes suffering and that attentiveness affirms dignity. I clarify further
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, 126). Attentive ethics in international relations is about priorities and choices.

Apocalyptic imagery is key to genuine resistance to problematic security structures

Schatz 12 (JL, Binghamton U, "The Importance of Apocalypse: The Value of End-­‐Of-­‐ The-­‐World Politics While Advancing Ecocriticism," The Journal of Ecocriticism: Vol 4, No 2 (2012))
Any hesitancy to deploy images of apocalypse out of the risk of acting in a
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into the future. … ~E~cological crisis … cannot be understood

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The standard is resisting militarism:

First¸ militarism epistemologically corrupts all political thought-confronting it is a prior question
Pieterse 7
Jan Nederveen, professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 3, Aug., “Political and Economic Brinkmanship,” p. 473-4
Brinkmanship and producing instability carry several meanings. The American military spends 48 of
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the need for postwar planning (Packer, 2005; Lang, 2004).

Second, Militarism has inflicted massive suffering and casualties – without immediate action, militarism will lead us into a death spiral that threatens the planet and humanity. That’s try or die CACC 11:
Admin, “Rejecting Militarism”, FEBRUARY 15, 2011, Canadians for Emergency action on Climate Change, http://climatesoscanada.org/blog/2011/02/15/rejecting-militarism/ climate change, wars, displacement, resource scarcity, false solutions, wealth concentration
Resources: 1 http://www.fcnl.org/budget/
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will not accept the death spiral of militarism, war and climate change. 

Third, overseas militarism comes home to roost-causes police abuse and fascism
Jenkins, Social Economics Department Chair @ Hampton Institute, 14
Colin Jenkins, “Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality”. February 27th, 2014. Society and Culture. The Hampton Institute. Colin Jenkins is founder, editor and Social Economics Department chair at the Hampton Institute, and has been published at Truthout, Common Dreams, Dissident Voice, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance, Z Magazine, and New Politics.
America's culture of war and violence was bound to catch up to all of us
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, transcending targeted demographics to include a working-class-wide assault.

This creation of a militaristic society destroys open deliberation and ethical thought-fighting back in pedagogical spaces is key
Giroux 13
(Henry Giroux history teacher in Rhode Island, for six years,2 held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State.  " http://philosophersforchange.org/2015/10/13/the-curse-of-totalitarianism-and-the-challenge-of-critical-pedagogy/)
At a time when the public good is under attack and there seems to be
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critical pedagogy illuminates the relationships among knowledge, authority and power.11

Activist movements are being crushed in the mainstream-only discussion of direct solutions to militarism in pedagogical spaces solves
Hanrahan
Hanrahan, Clare. “Militarism and the ‘Economics of Extinction’”, no date, published post 2010, Humans for Peace
Climate change activists, rightly concerned about the continued use of fossil fuels to power
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with the economics of extinction." We cannot let this be the end.

1AC-Overseas Militarism

Contention 1 is US militarism:

First: 

The American naval doctrine of mastery over the oceans militarizes the seas.
Connery 01
Connery, C. L. "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements." boundary 2 28.2 (2001): 173-201. Project MUSE. Web. 6 Sep. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
Alfred Mahan’s work The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 stands
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, has ensured his continued influence on U.S. Pacific strategy.

The oceans have been militarized by the state to assert nuclear power-this is epistemologically overlooked. Supposed freedom of navigation is destroyed by US military exercises.
Deloughrey, Humanities prof @ Berkeley, 10
Deloughrey, Elizabeth. "Heavy Waters: Waste and Atlantic Modernity." Theories and Methodologies 3.125 (2010): 703-12. Modern Language Association of America, 2010. Web. 5 Sept. 2016. Prof DeLoughrey teaches postcolonial literature courses on the environment, globalization, militarism, the politics of food, women’s writing and migration, and Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures. In 2013-14 she was on leave at the Huntington Library as an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow, and in June 2015 she was Visiting Professor at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France.
Elsewhere I’ve written about the rise of ocean studies and the ways in which the
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-­powered vessels patrolled the world’s oceans (Davis and Van Dyke 467).

This geopolitical form of militarism is uniquely Anglocentric and epistemologically corrupting-outweighs and is the root cause all other manifestations of militarism
Connery TWO
Connery, C. L. "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements." boundary 2 28.2 (2001): 173-201. Project MUSE. Web. 6 Sep. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
The geo-imaginary is powerful. It has given us such ideas as Europe
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forces that account for the rise of U.S. global power.

Second:

The promotion of nuclear energy is a cheap front for militarism
Hanrahan
Hanrahan, Clare. “Militarism and the ‘Economics of Extinction’”, no date, published post 2010, Humans for Peace
War is an all out assault on life. Every living being is in peril
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theaters, at a cost of $9.6 billion in 2010.

Nuclear power production is a shallow excuse for weaponization
Ackland 9 - Len Ackland, co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism., (“Weapons proliferation a big risk with nuclear power” February 10, 2009, http://www.cejournal.net/?p=903) LADI
As Tom Yulsman points out in his Feb. 5 posting, the tight connection
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record.  And that still would be a long way from proliferation proof.

1AC-Advocacy

Thus, I advocate a ban on the production of nuclear power in the United States and on all United States naval vessels. 

1AC-Solvency

Contention two is solvency:

First, banning nuclear power solves naval power:

Every submarine and aircraft carrier relies on nuclear power
Meyer, Atlantic associate tech editor, 14
Robinson Meyer, associate technology editor @ The Atlantic 10-8-2014, "What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor," Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/what-it-was-like-to-test-the-first-submarine-nuclear-reactor/381195/
The Nautilus turned 60 last week, and the U.S. Navy celebrated both its anniversary and six decades of a nuclear navy. That nuclear navy now encompasses some 80 ships. All of the navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers are nuclear-powered.

No shift to diesel submarines
Holmes, Strategy prof @ Naval War College, 14
James Holmes, 9-18-2014, "U.S. Submarines: Run Silent, Run Deep...On Diesel Engines?," National Interest, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-submarines-run-silent-run-deepon-diesel-engines-11306?page=3 James Holmes is Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College and coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific.
Admittedly, the barriers to reentry into conventional submarine warfare would be formidable. For
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the pushback from guardians of the status quo would be frightful to behold.

Nuclear subs are uniquely what sustain US naval militarism
Majumbar, writer for National Interest, 15
Dave Majumbar, writer for National Interest, “Nuclear Submarines: America's New Aircraft Carriers?” Apr 7 2015, National Interest
A new class of nuclear-powered guided missile submarines could be the key to
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that submarines might be the best option during high-end combat operations. 

Second, legal actions affect culture-civil rights movement proves
Masket 15
SETH MASKET, OCT 5, 2015, “You Can Change Laws Without Changing Hearts and Minds” http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/you-can-change-laws-without-changing-hearts-and-minds
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, a rather familiar public debate is
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some of those changes have done the country a great deal of good.

Third, reduction in US power solves militarism globally-

American primacy is the root cause of global fear politics and militarization
Layne, National Security Chair @ Texas AandM School of Govt, 07
Christopher, professor, and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University, American Empire: A Debate, 2007
The claim that others regard American primacy as benevolent because of U.S.
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others of its benevolence is limited by the very enormity of its power.

Tournament: Voices | Round: Octas | Opponent: West Ranch JW | Judge: Panel

1AC

US military decline is inevitable but it's a question of how we manage it – continued imperialist discourse ensures overextension and error replication

Shor 12 — Professor of History at Wayne State University (Francis, 1/1/12, "Declining US Hegemony and Rising Chinese Power: A Formula for Conflict?" PGDT 11, EBSCO)
Given the classical and more recent articulation of China's military and geostrategic posture in the
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will be a defining feature of the global role of the United States.

Militarism is a self-fulfilling prophecy used to justify endless war

Campbell et al. 7 ~David, Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University of London, Stuart Elden, Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, Stephen Graham, Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University, Alex Jeffrey, Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, Alison J. Williams, Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the International Boundaries Research Unit of the Geography Department at Durham University, Political Geography 26, "Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy," p. 409-411~
It is important to highlight the way performativity's idea of reiteration calls attention to changes
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idea of ''rogue states'' see Blum, 2002; Litwak, 2000)

Overseas militarism spills over—justifies infinite domestic fascism and oppression

Jenkins, Social Economics Department Chair @ Hampton Institute, 14
Colin Jenkins, "Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality". February 27th, 2014. Society and Culture. The Hampton Institute. Colin Jenkins is founder, editor and Social Economics Department chair at the Hampton Institute, and has been published at Truthout, Common Dreams, Dissident Voice, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance, Z Magazine, and New Politics.
America's culture of war and violence was bound to catch up to all of us
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, transcending targeted demographics to include a working-class-wide assault.

Militarism justifies a logic of disposability that makes violence inevitable. The role of the ballot is to vote for the advocacy that best challenges militarism within this debate space

Giroux '13: (Henry Giroux has a professorship at McMaster University and is a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University, "Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares"Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares" http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19025-beyond-savage-politics-and-dystopian-nightmares Wednesday, 25 September 2013 !—JAG—FT)
Right-wing market fundamentalists want to root out those considered defective consumers and citizens
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can develop in the effort to imagine a new and more democratic future. 

Prefer a long term, structural view of war—focus on "war" as a singular, bounded event makes an ontological distinction between "war" and "peace" which ensures the continuation of everyday militarism and violence.

Cuomo 96 Chris J. Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, 1996 ("War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence," Hypatia, Volume 11, Number 4, Fall, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via JSTOR, p. 30-31)  
Philosophical attention to war has typically appeared in the form of justifications for entering into
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media violence, and current ideological gravitations to military solutions for social problems. 

Contention 1

Contention 1 is US militarism:

First:

The American naval doctrine of mastery formed the foundation of US militarism—they turned the world into a source of global US militarism.

Connery 01
Connery, C. L. "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements." boundary 2 28.2 (2001): 173-201. Project MUSE. Web. 6 Sep. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
Alfred Mahan's work The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 stands
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of the ocean as definite space, and as space to be masteredstrategy.

This geopolitical form of militarism is epistemologically corrupting-outweighs causes other manifestations of militarism

Connery TWO
Connery, C. L. "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements." boundary 2 28.2 (2001): 173-201. Project MUSE. Web. 6 Sep. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
The geo-imaginary is powerful. It has given us such ideas as Europe
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forces that account for the rise of U.S. global power.

Second:

Nuclear technology's faith in scientific and technologic solutions fits into risk thinking that threatens human survival

Wang 12 (Andy, " Three notes on Fukushima: humanities after/in crisis" http://www.opendemocracy.net/andy-chih-ming-wang/three-notes-on-fukushima-humanities-afterin-crisis)
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands controversy to date is to
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nuclear industry to push all voices that challenged their lies into the periphery. 

Plan

Thus I advocate a general prohibition on the production of nuclear power in the United States. I can clarify in cross-ex

Solvency

First, banning nuclear power solves naval power:

Every submarine and aircraft carrier relies on nuclear power

Meyer, Atlantic associate tech editor, 14
Robinson Meyer, associate technology editor @ The Atlantic 10-8-2014, "What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor," Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/what-it-was-like-to-test-the-first-submarine-nuclear-reactor/381195/
The Nautilus turned 60 last week, and the U.S. Navy celebrated
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that submarines might be the best option during high-end combat operations. 

Second, legal actions affect culture-civil rights movement proves
Masket 15

SETH MASKET, OCT 5, 2015, "You Can Change Laws Without Changing Hearts and Minds" http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/you-can-change-laws-without-changing-hearts-and-minds
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, a rather familiar public debate is
AND
some of those changes have done the country a great deal of good.