Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
School of War
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The Role of Secrecy in Nuclear Deterrence
There is extreme secrecy where it's not required. The things that need to be secret about, you know, the Trident project in the 1980s would be things like when it was going to be delivered. And so there was almost this fear of British public opinion throughout the development of the weapons and pretty much at every stage. But these were more motivated by I suspect, byFear than anything else. This is what nuclear deterrence is: You engender fear by ultimately convincing somebody that you might just use a nuclear weapon against their population. We're not like that. We wouldn't do that.
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