Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
School of War
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The Supremacy of Nuclear Deterrence
The nuclear deterrence of the 21st century is very different to the way people talked and thought about nuclear deterrence in the 1980s, when they were just big bombs. The idea would be that you would use nuclear weapons simply to that everybody realized that somebody made a really bad mistake. So that's a very long-winded way of saying it. Obviously, it's not a position that anybody would ever want to be in or if it indeed wants to feel that they were comfortable in, but it's a necessary decision and somebody has to do it.
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