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Nuclear Weapons - What's the Bottom Line?
"There's been no nuclear wars since then. So we essentially don't have any reality in our discussions about the military value of nuclear weapons," he says. "It's not clear to me that, ok, modern nuclear weapons can be smaller and so on, but what's the military advantage of having a plume of poison blowing down wind from wherever you use this modestly sized bomb?" 'What's the bottom line here? Let's not talk about counterforce, countervailing stuff,' asks Dr Andrew Hammond.