***PROLIF GOOD*** 1
Akila, Andrew, Elsa, Karthik, Jesse, Jon, Meg, Meyer, Viveth, Zach 1
Prolif Good – War 3
Prolif decreases war. 3
Asal and Beardsley 7—professors of political science (Victor Asal and Kyle Beadsley, “Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior”, Vol 44, No. 2, March 2007, Journal of peace research, pp. 139-155, JSTOR, ZBurdette) 3
Prolif solves major war 3
New proliferators decrease the likelihood and damage of war—5 reasons 4
-caution 4
-deescalation due to fear of retaliation 4
-deterrence by punishment 4
-nuclear use causes immediate sobriety 4
-no motive to seek victory 4
Waltz 95 4
New proliferators dramatically reduce the risk of war 4
Waltz 95 4
Prolif prevents the escalation of wars 5
Waltz 95 5
Even if low-scale violence does occur it won’t escalate 5
More nuclear states increase stability—the cold war became even more stable when europe joined the fray 5
Waltz 95 5
Asal & Beardsley Methodology Good 6
Our studies are best -- 6
1) Empirics 6
Asal and Beardsley 7—professors of political science (Victor Asal and Kyle Beadsley, “Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior”, Vol 44, No. 2, March 2007, Journal of peace research, pp. 139-155, JSTOR, ZBurdette) 6
2) Data 6
Asal and Beardsley 7—professors of political science (Victor Asal and Kyle Beadsley, “Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior”, Vol 44, No. 2, March 2007, Journal of peace research, pp. 139-155, JSTOR, ZBurdette) 6
3) Accuracy and robust results. 6
Asal and Beardsley 7—professors of political science (Victor Asal and Kyle Beadsley, “Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior”, Vol 44, No. 2, March 2007, Journal of peace research, pp. 139-155, JSTOR, ZBurdette) 6
Prolif Good – Deterrence 7
Nuclear weapons prevent and descalate war—deterrence, caution, lack of motivation, and miscalc 7
Waltz 95 7
Nuclear weapons prevent and deescalate war. 8
Waltz 95 8
Nuclear weapons are the best means of deterring conflict; the world before them was wrought with war 9
Prolif good -- creates stability through state survival and deters conventional and nuclear conflict through balancing. 9
Exts – Cold War Proves 11
Cold war proves nuclear deterrence is good 11
India/Pakistan Prove 12
India and Pakistan prove prolif has a stabilizing effect 12
AT Deterrence Failures 13
Uncertainty makes the cost of war too high 13
Even low chance of retaliation is sufficient to deter 13
Even if deterrence failure occurs, prolif guarantees it doesn’t escalate. 13
Waltz 95 13
More ev. 14
Waltz 95 14
AT Any Risk of Prolif O/W 15
Study ONLY empirical outcomes. The ONLY relevant question is the net body count and nuclear prolif clearly reduces it. Single risk of accident isn’t enough. 15
Prolif Good – Conventional War 17
Proliferation solves nuclear and conventional conflict 17
Asal and Beardsley 7—professors of political science (Victor Asal and Kyle Beadsley, “Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior”, Vol 44, No. 2, March 2007, Journal of peace research, pp. 139-155, JSTOR, ZBurdette) 17
Conventional war is really deadly. 17
Exts – Prolif Solves Conventional War 19
40 to 1. Benefits outweigh the costs. 19
Prolif solves conventional war and arms racing 19
Waltz 95 19
Preventing proliferation guarantees devastating conventional wars in all global hotspots. 19
Conventional War Bad – General 21
Conventional war sucks. 21
Conventional War O/W Nuclear War 22
Conventional war is just as devastating as nuclear war 22
Conventional war escalates to nuclear war. 22
Conventional weapons are increasing in lethality 22
Conventional War Bad – Terrorism 24
War causes terror 24
AT Conventional War Unlikely 25
Conventional war is probable. Sound deterrent strategies should guide policy analysis. 25
Multiple nations are gearing up for conventional war-fighting now. Absent adjustment the world will face risks of large-scale conflict. 25
AT Prolif Bad – General 27
Their impact claims are based on a flawed analysis 27
AT Accidents 28
The risk of accidents is low -- nukes are on balance better for stability. 28
AT Anonymous Strike/Blackmail 29
No risk 29
Waltz 95 29
AT Arms Race 30
Only small arsenals -- solves stability -- three reasons. 30
Nuclear capabilities make arms races irrelevant 31
Waltz 95 31
Deterrence disincentivizes arms racing 31
Waltz 95 31
AT Arsenal Insecurity – General 33
Small arsenals, self-interest, and ingenuity keep weapons secure 33
AT Civil War/Unstable States 34
Lower risk of prolif in those states and no escalation. 34
Waltz 95 34
AT Crisis Instability 35
Prolif solves crisis stability – first strike capability. 35
Prolif creates a perception of second strike capabilities that solves crisis instability. 35
Even if prolif causes more crises, it forces leaders to back down before they escalate. 35
AT Faulty Arsenals Destabilize 36
Nope 36
Waltz 95 36
Even atrocious arsenals can deter 36
Waltz 95 36
AT Irrationality 37
Leaders aren’t irrational -- they’re focused on state survival 37
All actors are at least rational enough, even non-state/terrorist groups. 37
Prolif stabilizes radical regimes -- Libya proves. 37
Waltz 95 37
AT Mil Control → First Use 38
Doesn’t happen. 38
Waltz 95 38
AT Miscalc 39
Prolif solves miscalc. 39
No miscalc 39
AT Nuclear Hitler 40
Won’t happen 40
Waltz 95 40
AT Offensive Use – General 41
Nuclear use by small states would not escalate – the costs are too high 41
Waltz 95 41
AT Overconfidence 42
The uncertainty of nuclear response means even an overconfident actor wouldn’t attack 42
Waltz 95 42
AT Preemptive Strikes 43
The high probability of 1st strikes failing is sufficient to prevent them 43
Empirical studies prove no preemption. 43
No offensive use. 44
Waltz 95 44
AT Preventative Strikes 45
No preventative wars 45
Political constraints check preventive war 45
nope 46
Waltz 95 46
AT Rivalries 47
Even bitter rivals are deterred by nuclear use 47
Waltz 95 47
AT Theft/Terrorism 48
NOPE – bunches of warrants 48
No terror / stolen – MAD theory but smaller scale 48
Terrorists have no motivation for a nuclear attack 49
Nope – if there was terrorism – there’d be more control 50
AT Unequal Prolif 51
Unequal prolif means no retaliation 51
2nd Strike capability allows deterrence to work even between misbalanced forces 51
Waltz 95 51
Prolif Good – BW Shift 53
Bioweapon use causes extinction. 53
Clifford Singer, Spring 2001. Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. “Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?” The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/research/S&Ps/2001-Sp/S&P_XIII/Singer.htm. 53
Exts – Stopping Prolif → BW 54
Preventing proliferation encourages biological weapon acquisition. 54
Nuclear Deterrence Good – CBW Attacks 55
Presence of nuclear weapons prevents a CBW attack. 55
Bioweapons O/W Nuclear War 56
Bioweapons outweigh nuclear war -- short circuits deterrence. 56
Bio-weapons use outweighs and turns nuclear war. 56
Alexander, 2007 56
Bioweapons cause extinction and outweigh nuclear war. 57
Prolif Good – Satellites 59
Proliferation causes satellite surveillance expansion. 59
That’s key to the global environment 59
Extinction. 59
Cairns, 2004 59
Prolif Slow 62
Proliferation will be slow and will not cause instability or terrorism -- their impacts are fabricated as the result of political and economically motivated scaremongering. 62
Prolif is inevitable, slow, and stabilizing—no offense 63
Prolif will stay slow and won’t snowball. 66
Waltz 95 66
Prolif slow and inevitable 67
Waltz 95 67
Small Arsenals 68
Won’t build large arsenals – solves conflict. 69
Small arsenals check 69
Exts – Yes Build Small Arsenals 71
No adversaries = no large buildup 72
AT Arsenals Too Small for Deterrence 73
Even small arsenals are sufficient for deterrence. 73
New proliferators will have strong deterrence credibility in spite of limited arsenals 73
Even small arsenals can effectively deter 73
Waltz 95 73
***PROLIF BAD*** 75
Prolif Bad (Below) 77
Prolif guarantees great power intervention – escalates to nuclear war. 77
Prolif Bad (Kissinger) 78
Prolif causes extinction -- deterrence fails and can’t replicate Cold War stability -- accidents, miscalc, terrorism, preemption. 78
Prolif Bad (Krieger) 80
Proliferation risks extinction. benefits don’t justify jacking with the future of humanity. 80
Prolif Bad (Sokolski) 81
A proliferated world would risk escalatory regional nuclear wars. 81
Sokolski, 2009 81
Prolif Bad (Roberts) 82
In the new world order proliferation will be rapid and destabilizing – even Waltz assumes proliferation is slow 82
Prolif Bad (Robock) 83
Prolif dramatically increases the risk of nuclear war -- causes nuclear winter. 83
Prolif Bad (War – General) 84
Proliferation leads to catastrophic scenarios and threats exist now – India, Pakisan, North Korea, Iran, and Iraq prove 84
New proliferators are inherently unstable – escalation. 85
Risk of Prolif O/W 88
Even if the risk is relatively low the consequences are too high to risk. 88
Prolif Bad – Accidents 90
Proliferation creates significant accidental and unauthorized nuclear risks -- India and Pakistan prove they won’t take sufficient protective measures. 90
Prolif causes an arms race – accidental nuclear war 91
Prolif Bad – Crisis Instability 92
Prolif causes crisis instability in post-Cold War era 92
Crisis Instability T/Deterrence 93
Crisis instability kills deterrence 93
Prolif Bad – Deterrence Failures 94
Regional deterrence failures are likely. They’ll escalate to draw in the US. 94
Deterrence failure is likely. Incomplete intelligence and irrationality in a regional crisis. 94
Cimbala, 2007 94
New proliferators will make deterrence less stable: historical animosity, short-range and civil-military relationships. 95
Cimbala, 2007 95
Deterrence is unstable. Failure is likely even with minimal deterrence. 96
None of the requirements for rational deterrence will apply. 99
Nuclear deterrence will only solve under near perfect information – in most likely situations it can’t solve conflict and only increases the risk 100
Deterrence isn’t automatic. 101
AT Cold War Proves Deterrence Solves 102
Deterrence theory failed in the Cold War and will continue to fail – incites war 103
AT Indo-Pak Proves Deterrence 106
Indo-Pak crises prove deterrence failure is possible and nukes don't prevent escalation. 106
AT Indo-Pak Proves Deterrence (Kargil) 108
US intervention, not nuclear weapons prevented Kargil escalation. 108
AT Nukes Only For Deterrence 110
New powers will see nuclear weapons as useful for offensive warfighting, not deterrence. 110
Exts – Deterrence Fails (Non-State Actors) 111
Terrorists and rogue states are not deterred by nuclear arsenals 111
Prolif Bad – Irrationality 113
Rationality is a uniquely poor assumption for nuclear war planning. 113
Mozley, 1998 113
Prolif Bad – Miscalc 114
Proliferation risks miscalculation. 114
Prolif Bad – Pre-Delegation 115
Risk of preemption means pre-delegation making nuclear escalation more likely. 115
Prolif Bad – Preemption 116
Future proliferators will use nukes, not deter. Preemption is likely. 116
Proliferation lead to preemptive strikes 120
The act of proliferation invites first strikes even if deterrence applies -- prolif good authors concede. 121
Prolif Bad – Preventative Strikes 123
Prolif increases preventive attempts 123
Prolif Bad – Preemption/Preventative Strikes 125
Prolif causes preventive and preemptive strikes -- empirical proof. 125
Prolif Bad – First Strikes Impact 126
Tech diffusion causes first strikes. 126
These states will be left uninhabitable. 126
AT No Preemption – Deterrence 127
Deterrence can’t check preemption – fears cause irrational decisionmaking 127
AT No Preemption – Intel 128
Intelligence over-confidence means they'll chance preemptive strikes. 128
AT No Preemption – Rationality 129
Nuclear arsenals won't deter intervention. 129
AT No Preventative War 131
Historically rare nature of preventive war is irrelevant. It is likely in the future against nuclear prolif. 131
AT Diplomacy Checks 134
Diplomacy doesn’t check war – countries will look to military actions before cooperation 134
AT Intel Checks 135
Bad c and c makes prolif a war risk. 135
AT Nuclear Irrelevancy 136
Nuclear irrelevancy doesn’t accurately depict the world 136
AT Safety Measures 138
Small countries will build large arsenals and lack stable C and C 138
AT Small Arsenals 139
Actual dynamics of conflict prove there will be a rapid arsenal buildup and according loss of command and control. 139
AT Prolif Slow (General) 143
Neorealism dictates that states will continue to proliferate indefinitely if they have the technical capabilities 143
AT Prolif Slow (No Tipping Point) 145
We are at the nuclear tipping point – consensus of experts 145
AT Rationality Checks 146
Rationality of states is irrelevant – even the tiny possibility of miscalculation or misunderstandings would plunge the world into the dark ages 146
AT Realism 147
c. structural weaknesses 148
f. In the context of proliferation, RIST and RDT theories fail 151
AT Waltz 153
Waltz’s theory is flawed 153
Waltz’s rational deterrence theory fails 153
Prolif → BMD 156
Prolif causes BMD buildup 156
Prolif Bad – Environment 157
Prolif causes massive environmental destruction. 157
Prolif Bad – Heg 158
Prolif destroys heg and diplomacy -- 158
a. Proliferation affects each state differently. The largest determinant of whether proliferation is good or bad is an individual state’s power projection capabilities – this understanding of proliferation is comparatively better for policymakers. 158
b. Proliferation hurts power-projecting states like the US while strengthening our enemies – proliferation hurts hegemony by decreasing our ability to leverage coercive diplomacy 159
Exts – Prolif Kills Heg 160
Proliferation erodes hegemony 160
Constrains conventional military freedom 160
b. Deter’s military intervention 160
c. reduces effectiveness of coercive diplomacy 162
d. Trigger regional instability 163
e. Undermines alliance structures. 164
F. dissipates strategic attention 165
h. Sets off further proliferation 166
Conversely, new proliferation makes our enemies stronger by allowing them to constrain our freedom of action: all our internal links are reverse causal 167
Prolif Bad – Hegemonic Transition 171
Prolif makes major power transitions more dangerous and increases the likelihood of catalytic conflicts escalating. 171
Prolif Bad – Terrorism 173
Exts – Prolif → Terrorism 174
Nuclear proliferation increases the risk of nuclear terrorism; preventing it solves 174
Proliferation will increase terrorist theft of nuclear materials which escalates to an arms race. 175
Prolif risks a nuclear terrorist attack. 175
Prolif guarantees non-state actor acquisition -- extinction. 176
AT Prolif Solves War (General) 178
Prolif creates numerous chances for conflict. Letting prolif happen causes far more destructive wars. 178
Proliferation won’t deter war -- bad command and control, rapid response risks inadvertent war and proliferation would be rapid. 178
AT Prolif Solves Conventional War 181
nuclear war isn't close to deterring conventional wars. And this holds escalatory potential. 181
War is still likely. Subordinates, first strike and lack of survivability. 181
Empirically nuclear proliferation increases the risk of conventional war – high costs encourage conflict 182
Prolif transforms ongoing disputes into shooting wars. 182
Doesn’t solve lower level conflicts. 183
AT Asal & Beardsley 184
Proliferation only reduces the risk of war by 37%, but risks absolute destruction 184
AT Allied Prolif Good/Stable 185
Proliferation is bad even when it spreads to allies. 185
Asian Prolif Bad – Arms Races 187
Asian prolif causes arms races – escalates to nuclear warfare 187
Asian Prolif Bad – Preemption 188
Asian prolif specifically causes preemption – nuclear war 188
Asian Prolif Bad – Terrorism 191
Asian proliferation risks instability and nuclear terrorism. 191
Asian prolif causes terrorism. 191
AT Prolif Good (Asia Specific) 193
Their prolif good turns assume a Soviet and American influence – they don’t apply to Asia 193
Iran Prolif Bad 194
Iranian prolif undermines deterrence – guarantees crisis 194
Middle East Prolif Bad – General 195
Middle East prolif causes destabilizing arms races, escalation, and nuclear terrorism. 195
IHT ‘6 (Noah Feldman, “Nuclear holocaust: A risk too big even for martyrs?” 10-27, http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/27/news/bombforweb.php) 195
Middle East Prolif Bad – Heg 196
Middle East proliferation eviscerates US hegemony 196
Missile Prolif Bad – Escalation 198
Proliferation causes escalation 198
Proliferation causes interstate regional conflict 198
Missile Prolif Bad – NPT 199
Missile prolif destabilizes the world and collapses non-prolif efforts. 199
***RANDOM PROLIF-RELATED*** 201
NPT Good – Terrorism 203
The NPT is key to nonproliferation- solves extinction and terrorism 203
NPT Good – Prolif 205
The NPT solve prolif- symbolic steps reduce the likelihood of war 205
Brink of rapid prolif – NPT key. 207
Nonprolif prevents extinction. 207
AT US Actions → Prolif 209
Prolif is based on regional concerns -- not motivated by US action. 209
Global Disarm Attempts Bad 211
Removal process would lead to nuclear miscalculation -- empirical examples prove. 211
Even if its successful, it causes categorically greater instability and escalation than the SQ. 211
AT NPT Solves Prolif 213
No wildfire prolif- the NPT isn’t key 213
Arms control can’t solve irrational actors -- only deterrence checks that. 214
AT CBMs Solve 215
Confidence-building measures fail -- increases the risk of preemption and conflict. 215
Opacity Bad – Stability 217
Proliferation won’t be stable under opacity. 217
Opacity Good – Stability 218
Opaque prolif solves stability 218
Opacity Good – Theft/Terrorism 219
Opacity prevents nuclear theft. 219
AT Opacity Not Solve Deterrence 220
Opaque prolif still solves deterrence 220
***RANDOM UNRELATED*** 222
Yes – Global Nuclear Modernization 224
Threat is high now – states are modernizing their arsenals and research is advancing rapidly 224
Yes – China Buildup 225
China is a challenger -- building up nuclear stockpiles. 225
Yes – Russia Buildup 226
Russia is developing its capabilities now -- multiple warrants. 226
Yes – Rogue State/Terrorist Threat 227
Rogue states are a huge threat – even if they won’t attack, they will sell nuclear arsenals to terrorists 227
Yes – Nuclear Terrorism 228
Nuclear terrorisms high probability. 228
Terrorists can acquire nuclear materials. 228
Terrorists can get the bomb – Pakistan, North Korea, or the Black Market 229
Nuclear terrorism is feasible -- crushes the global economy 230
Yes – Nuclear Winter 232
Nuclear winter theory is true – their experts rely on limited, outdated experts 232
Oil Shocks Impact 235
Oil shocks devastate the economy, collapse global trade and guarantee escalation. 235