Articles by Jayantha Dhanapala
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Of Nuke States, Outliers and Global Security
Jayantha Dhanapala - InDepth News,
27 Jun 2011
One definition of an outlier, in the original field of statistics, is “one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs.” Thus, in a world where the global norm is membership of the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), nuclear weapon armed states outside the NPT have been referred to as the outliers. The use of the term has an undeniably pejorative implication but in modern realpolitik no value judgments hold sway.
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