THE DISCOURSE ON NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND POSSESSION BLAMES THE WRONG PEOPLE. Hugh Gusterson MIT, ʻ99] Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Feb, 1999), pp. 111-143 The discourse on nuclear proliferation legitimates this system of domination while presenting the interests the established nuclear powers have in maintaining their nuclear monopoly as if they were equally beneficial to all the nations of the globe. And, ironically, the discourse on nonproliferation presents these subordinate nations as the principal source of danger in the world. This is another case of blaming the victim. The discourse on nuclear proliferation is structured around a rigid segregation of "their" problems from "ours" In fact, however, we are linked to developing nations by a world system, and many of the problems that, we claim, render these nations ineligible to own nuclear weapons have a lotto do with the West and the system it dominates.
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