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United States’ Nuclear Future More About Proliferation Than Abolition, Expert Says

Gally Articola

Friday, June 7th, 2013

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The United States’ nuclear future will be more about proliferation than abolition unless minds in foreign capitals can be changed, according to a fellow at a leading Washington think tank. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA) Senior Fellow Barry Watts said in his recent report, “Nuclear-Conventional Firebreaks and the Nuclear Taboo,” mutually-assured destruction, or the ability of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the ’70s to respond to each other’s initial nuclear strike with devastating retaliation, was once enough…

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