O Tratado de não Proliferação nuclear e a Defesa Nacional A questão nuclear e a capacidade dissuasória do Poder Naval brasileiro

Abstract

The objective of this research is analyze if the dissuasive capacity of Brazil was limited by the ratification of Non-Proliferation Treaty, in 1998. Through bibliographic research, official documents and international agreement made before this ratification and the external (foreign) policy are examined for the purpose of determine the current and polemic objective of this research. The Brazilian Naval Power is limited, by law enforcement, to use non-nuclear resources. Therefore, the increase of the dissuasive capacity of this Power, in order to oppose an opponent with undoubtedly better military power, is examined as a study proposal. This analysis is not accomplish by the comparison of Naval Power. The challenge of this study is to answer to this proposal in a moment prior to this comparison. The dissuasive concept is detailed. The White Book of National Defense (2013), the National Defense Polic y (2013) and the National Defense Strategic (2013) differentiate by its contents, both the objective of the research, and the proposal of the study, in distinct levels of depth and without theoretical basis. To differentiate how to make this typified opponent gives up to achieve an aggressive action on Brazil, respecting the limitation imposed by the nuclear problem, and through the strategic use of the submarine, it is the way that this author developed this assignment. In order to apply methodological basis to this thesis questions, were used, in this thesis, the concepts of Byman e Waxman (2002), Coutau-Bégarie (2010), Kearsley(1992), Mearsheimer (1983) and Wedin (2015)