POLI1042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle, Mutual Assured Destruction, Flexible Response
20 Jun 2016
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A. 1. is it good to have small states with nuclear power. A. the united states would not put its major cities and citizens in harms way over west. Berlin: not a credible threat to have mutually assured destruction because no one believes it, proposed a flexible response with shorter range nuclear weapons, proposed limited nuclear war (survivable) D. 1. when less than vital interests are involved wouldn"t it make more sense to develop battlefield nuclear weapons. D. 5. less destructive weapons this idea undermined the mad doctrine just because you use nuclear weapons then the world will be blown to smithereens took away the deference factor of nuclear weapons. D. 5. a) correct when he was talking about all out nuclear war as unrealistic, but made things worse. Challenging scholars, analysts and policy makers to think more critically about nuclear power. D. 8. makes the thought of nuclear deterrence eroded no longer armageddon now it is more palatable: preemptive war.
