Public Perceptions of Nuclear Arms Proliferation: A Contemporary View

The current study focuses on the topic of nuclear arms proliferation and on the consequences of maintaining or growing the global nuclear weapons arsenal. The paper maps out the contemporary public opinion regarding the matter of nuclear arms proliferation and global denuclearization. It defines the strategies that different groups of respondents stick to when talking about the global denuclearization and it helps to understand how important the issue of global denuclearization is in people’s minds and if public audience actually thinks there is a need for it. This research aims at contributing to previous studies of public awareness about the nuclear weapons proliferation while offering to a contemporary perspective to detect the status quo employing perceptions-related mechanisms of analysis.