Answer to Question #147165 in Political Science for Oumou Diallo

Question

Do nuclear weapons enhance the ability to deter conventional conflicts? What about nuclear conflicts? Explain your answer based on deterrence theory.

Answer 1

Nuclear weapons enhance the ability to deter the occurrence of conventional conflicts. Presently, the world is facing a pandemic besides a polarized, volatile, and destabilizing international security surrounding. The environment has uncovered humans to the grey-zones of peace and war.

Besides that, nuclear conflicts also enhance the ability to deter conventional conflicts. Countries with nuclear weapons have been engaging each other based on political reasons, however, such cases have reduced due to the fear of nuclear conflicts.