POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mutual Assured Destruction, Berlin Wall, Nuclear Warfare
22 Nov 2013
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Pol101 lecture 10 cold war realism november 29, 2010. Our world divided by 2 parts (each side armed and with a different government: more stable world than now, nuclear war. How and what we study things had effect. Hungary lost: usa encouraged hungary to revolt. But soviets took over hungary again because usa didn"t help (usa didn"t want to start ww3: germany was divided (east and west) [berlin was divided too] Berlin wall because germany was losing people. Nuclear weapons (weapons of a new kind?: nuclear weapons are too scary to use (can backfire) Difference between deterrence and defense: nuclear weapons were used for deterrence and not defense, used only to stop other"s weapon or if being overrun. Mannu: data on nuclear weapons means of delivery (missiles, submarines, bombers) Us superiority 1949-1968: mutually assured destruction (mad: soviets had nukes (destruction is mutually assured -> second strike capability) Basic doctrine in 1950s-80s, mutually assured destruction.
