{"id":10583,"date":"2020-11-30T11:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:54:57","slug":"dr-mendenhall-wins-deterrence-writing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2020\/11\/30\/dr-mendenhall-wins-deterrence-writing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mendenhall wins Deterrence Writing Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Mendenhall&#8217;s paper &#8220;Nuclear Weapon Free Zones and Contemporary Arms Control,&#8221; published in the Winter edition of <em>Strategic Studies Quarterly<\/em> has won the junior division of the 2020 General Larry D. Welch Deterrence Writing Award sponsored by United States Strategic Command. In order top select the winners, a team of deterrence experts evaluated relevant papers on their applicability to current deterrence issues, quality of argument, historical accuracy, quality of reference material, and implications for future deterrence analysis, planning, and operation.<br \/>\nReceipt of the award was recognized on 13 November during the USSTRATCOM Deterrence Symposium.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, which can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airuniversity.af.edu\/SSQ\/\">here<\/a>, surveys existing nuclear weapon free zones (NWFZs) and describes their goals and the role of nuclear-armed<br \/>\nstates in creating and maintaining the zones. It also evaluates the prospects for<br \/>\ncreating three new NWFZs as a productive contribution to disarmament<br \/>\nand nonproliferation including nuclear zero. Dr. Mendenhall ultimately concludes that &#8220;Although flexibility in the NWFZ model can increase its<br \/>\nusefulness for nonproliferation and limited disarmament in challenging<br \/>\nregional security environments, too much flexibility may guarantee that<br \/>\nNWFZs will never be an effective means of reaching global zero.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper, &#8220;Nuclear Weapon Free Zones and Contemporary Arms Control&#8221; evaluates the prospects for creating three new zones as a productive contribution to disarmament<br \/>\nand nonproliferation goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3922,"featured_media":10586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elizabeth-mendenhall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10589,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions\/10589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}