Nuclear deterrence

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• 5/8/2022
  

  Reigniting a Nuclear Arms Race is the Wrong Take-Home from Ukraine

  by David P. Barash

  A simplistic assumption of nuclear deterrence – that having nuclear weapons protects a nation against aggression – has frequently failed in practice. The Ukraine invasion should be a call to rethink deterrence and move toward abolishing nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/29/19
  

  The Madness of Nuclear Deterrence

  by Mikhail Gorbachev

  The dangers have only become more acute in the decades since I tried to convince Thatcher.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  1-9-18
  

  The deterrence myth

  by David P Barash

  Nuclear deterrence continues to dominate international relations. Yet there is no proof it ever worked, nor that it ever will.