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Is It Time to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?
The Soho Forum Debates
Deterrence Red Lines
Nuclear terrence has worked to such an extent that the average war deaths from 19 11 to 19 forty five averaged 14 thousand a day. We are accustomed to thinking of deterrents as serving defensive purposes, but russia and china's coercive nuclear first use threats are here. And now any move toward abolition must factor this in. This is not cold war deterrence with which we are familiar. It is, however, unprecedented. The priority deterrance question now follows from this discussion is new. How do you simultaneously deter two revantins, great powers, that are driven by the common belief that their goals are of existential importance? Because without nuclear deterrence, well, we might also be dead
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