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All Cards on the Table: First-Use of Nuclear Weapons

Posted July 25th, 2016 at 11:47 am (UTC-4)
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First of all, we should stop believing that nuclear deterrence is Cold War thinking by people who want to retain Cold War weapon systems….Second, if the United States were to de-alert its nuclear forces, what message would re-alerting them send to an adversary during a crisis situation?