The Doctrine of Thomas Schelling

There cannot be a nuclear war between major powers, the country that launches a first strike will be destroyed. Even if there's no retaliatory strike, just from the effects of nuclear winter. People like former Defense Secretary William Perry have been his whole life in the nuclear establishment. He says he's terrified, doubly terrified, terrified once because we're racing towards disaster day by day. Sometimes it's just astonishing. So the Pew polling agency, a couple of weeks ago, came out with the give regular studies of public attitudes on all sorts of things,. The latest one gave people a couple of dozen choices of issues and asked them to rank them in terms of urgency. Nuclear war was not even