The Jackson School of Global Affairs Colloquium in International Security Studies presents
Ruoyu Li, Kissinger Visiting Scholars Predoctoral Fellow and PhD candidate in Political Science, Johns Hopkins University:
“Challenging the Nuclear Test-Use Binary.”
Ruoyu Li is writing a dissertation that traces how U.S. nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean instantiated military imperialism and triggered indigenous antinuclear and de-colonial movements.
Li will present “Challenging the Nuclear Test-Use Binary.” This chapter of her dissertation challenges the exclusion of nuclear testing from the definition of nuclear use in the field of International Relations. Using U.S. nuclear testing in the Pacific Proving Grounds, 1946-62, Li argues that weapons testing is a form of usage.