INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mutual Assured Destruction, Nuclear Winter, Conventional Weapons
Document Summary
Security dilemma (1) armament is a function of power, (2) power is a function of military capability. Security dilemma the tendency of states to view the adversary states as threatening so that all state"s security decline. Nuclear utilization theory (nuts)- alternative theory to mad you can use limited nuclear weapons to win in a war (still around after the war ends) survivability. Balance of power as the theory that peace and stability are more likely to be maintained when military power is distributed to prevent a single hegemony (realists- weakness=attack) Nuclear winter when large explosions place a large cloud of dust and smoke in the atmosphere (this cloud eventually blocks all sunlight from reaching earth, causing the imminent death and desolation of life on earth) One part of the three-part triad (during the cold war) that made the united states" second-strike capability invulnerable.
