Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?
Warfare
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The Additive Deterrent Value of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear deterrence is a system of beliefs into which people become socialized. We don't have an empirical data base of nuclear wars and the collapse of nuclear deterrents resulting in nuclear violence. In many ways, there probably are no good reasons to use it. But that doesn't mean any one here wouldn't be tempted to go on using it. And so we've got heroashima, nagasaki, Hiroshima and then going back to cana, thea ute horrors of world war too.
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