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Yes, You Can Be a Feminist and Still Support Nuclear Deterrence

Archive, Strategic Adversariesarmed conflict, capability, cold war, credibility, critical theory, Critique, deterrence strategy, escalation, explanation, gender critique, gender norms, global war, Here is a comma separated list of keywords from the paper: feminism, international relations, IR feminists, Margaret Thatcher, masculinity, moral responsibility, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, patriarchy, peace, policy, realist theory, security, sexual violence, strategic calculations, technostrategic language, violence, war avoidance, war crimes, war prevention, women

Yes, You Can Be a Feminist and Still Support Nuclear Deterrence

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Published: May 4, 2026 In 1987, acclaimed feminist researcher Carol Cohn released a scathing gendered critique of Cold War nuclear deterrence. Cohn argued that the ‘technostrategic,’ masculinized language used to…

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