Rethinking Armageddon: Scenario Planning in the Second Nuclear Ageby Andrew F. Krepinevich & Jacob CohnCenter for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2016
Since the end of the Cold War, considerable intellectual confusion has emerged over nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence. A central reason has been the tendency of scholars and public policy figures, goaded by global nuclear-zero types, to associate these weapons with the Cold War. They have apparently been taken in by the historical coincidence that the Cold War and the nuclear age emerged at about the same time; so, when the Cold War ended, it seemed only logical to many …read more
Source: The American Interest
