Eric Edelman, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Ambassador to Turkey and Finland, joins the show to talk about how nuclear strategic thinking began and how those debates resonate today.
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• 01:47 Introduction
• 02:45 Oppenheimer’s Borden in reality
• 07:00 Brodie and The Absolute Power
• 11:12 Deterrence before Hiroshima
• 13:15 Blackett and Fear, War, and the Bomb
• 19:40 Counter-value vs counter-force
• 37:33 Russian nuclear strategy
• 42:44 Extended deterrence
• 52:37 Pain tolerance
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