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