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#210 — The Logic of Doomsday
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Is It a First Strike Weapon or a Response Weapon?
i see bmsr by almost by definition, a first strike weapon. They are in lono nownlike locations and can be taken out before you could respond. So that makes them exceedingly dangerous because they are their vulnerability. If the president alerted to an attack coming on the united states he would have less than ten minutes to decide whether to launch our i c b ms. And if he decides not to launch them, he risks losing all of the i c p ms. For that reason, i think whatever level of nuclear forces we think we need for deterrence ought to be put into the submarine forces and air forces....
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