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Neorealism centres on the belief that the international system’s ordering principle is anarchy. An anarchic system implies that there is no higher central authority that states can turn to when in
trouble, coupled with a general distrust amongst states that the global community is very uncertain and filled with potential conflict. This leads to a self-help system where states are required to
have the capabilities to help themselves, because no one else can be counted on to do so. (Burchill et al 2013, p.37)

With the assumptions that states are required to be able to take care of themselves against nuclear war with neighbouring states, the development and some form of proliferation of nuclear warfare
is advocated to ensure nuclear deterrence.

The increased competition in the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons called the “Nuclear Arms Race” post-Cold War, from a neorealist perspective, could be attributed to the
disintegration of multiethnic states, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact (Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union) – that would lead to future alliances within Europe to be uncertain and not guaranteed. (Kramer 1998)

A well-known political scientist, Kenneth Walz, founder of neorealism argued for the proliferation of nuclear weapons because of their power in nuclear deterrence. Nuclear deterrence policy is
intended to shape an enemy state’s behaviour by threatening with nuclear attack. (Payne 1996, pp.7)

The development and proliferation of nuclear weapons may be the right way to ensure peace, as long as every state should believe in potential retaliation and mutually assured destruction.