Тhe End of Overkill
Sep. 24th, 2013 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherThe End of Overkill? Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy.
US security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them.
Keeping the Soviet army out of Western Europe was never that hard; it did not require the ability to disarm their nuclear deterrent.
US security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them.
Keeping the Soviet army out of Western Europe was never that hard; it did not require the ability to disarm their nuclear deterrent.
