The Logic of US Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters

For decades, the prevailing scientific wisdom in nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States requires only the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack while being able to respond with a counter-attack. devastating attack. As long as the United States, or any other country, retains such a confident response capability, no sane leader would intentionally launch a nuclear attack against it, and nuclear deterrence would hold up. Under this theory, owning more weapons than necessary for a second-strike capability is illogical.

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