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Nuclear weapons and the balance of terror

The Rachman Review

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Why Nuclear Weapons Were Not Used Again After 1945

Gideon asks whether we were lucky or deterred; Plokhy attributes restraint to taboo, psychological impact of Hiroshima, and political calculations.

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