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Relearning to Love the Bomb
Khatchadourian, Raffi | April 1, 2002 issue

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This article presents the author's views on the issue of using nuclear weapons during war. Throughout much of the cold war, nuclear weapons were largely justified as instruments of strategic deterrence rather than as weapons usable in combat. Since the end of the cold war new nuclear powers like India and Pakistan have emerged onto the world stage, but the older ones have significantly scaled back their arsenals. Moreover, as the U.S. led wars in Serbia and Afghanistan have shown, conventional U.S. military force has become so overwhelmingly powerful that Pentagon planners no longer need atomic explosives to create the tremendous shock required to obliterate hostile regimes.

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INTERNATIONAL relations; NUCLEAR weapons; DETERRENCE (Strategy); NO first use (Nuclear strategy); NUCLEAR disarmament; NUCLEAR arms control
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