Eternal Hunger: A Qualitative Analysis of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and its Role as a Driver of the New Nuclear Arms Race

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dc.contributor.advisorCramer, Jane
dc.contributor.authorZupo, Dominic
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-30T20:10:11Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe emergence of a new Cold War and the arms racing it brings has captured the attention of the globe. To understand the drivers of the new global tension the current discourse has overwhelmingly looked to great power politics for explanations. A dominant narrative has emerged that frames the United States as a superpower in decline currently facing increasingly aggressive challenges from China. This study directly challenges that narrative by investigating the role of nuclear weapons laboratories as the possible key driver of this new era of nuclear arms racing and proliferation. Specifically, this thesis uses process tracing and organization theory to explain how Lawrence Livermore National laboratories developed an organizational ethos that sought to master its resource dependence by pursuing influence over the policy that controls the distribution of the resources it seeks. This thesis argues that in doing so Lawrence Livermore acts as a driver of arms racing and in turn the new Cold War.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/30066
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subjectNuclearen_US
dc.subjectNuclear Weaponsen_US
dc.subjectNew Cold Waren_US
dc.subjectMilitary Industrial Complexen_US
dc.subjectLawrence Livermoreen_US
dc.titleEternal Hunger: A Qualitative Analysis of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and its Role as a Driver of the New Nuclear Arms Race
dc.typeThesis/Dissertation

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