Nukes and Stability
We Are Not Saved
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Using a Nekes in a Cold War? Is It a Good Idea?
"I think i would like to have more certainty when you're talking about potentially starting world or three," he says. "Extending mutually assured destruction to include ukraine feels like both a dangerous extension of the doctrine and a dangerous precedent for all this." He adds that if we make it clear that we will immediately retaliate in kind if nekes used, then if puton issues an order to use neks, the commanders will disobey that order. But those are a few very big ifs".
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