POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Security Dilemma, Strategic Defense Initiative, Acute Radiation Syndrome
13 Jul 2014
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Purpose destroy actual targets (factories, etc) and because of a set of beliefs that the way to win a war is to cause so much destruction that you cause the other country to submit. Lesson doesn"t really work since britain, germany and japan didn"t give in until the dropping of the atomic bombs and the entry of the. Both have nuclear weapons and if they attack first the other side will attack. Doesn"t work if one cannot attack with the same capability: assured second strike capability. Any attempt by soviets to destroy one of the triad assured they still had the capability. How many soviets/americans would have to be killed for them to decide it was enough. Neither side will have the incentive to strike first: problem india/pakistan. India larger country, developed space program (therefore good nuclear power), lots of places to hide. Pakistan has nuclear weapons, no commitments: problem countries.
