Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Additive Deterrence Value of Nuclear Weapons
I consider nuclear deterents to be an ideology. And i don't, i know, ideology can be used in a pajoritive sense,. I do meanit as i it's almost necessarily a set of meaning and beliefs. Nuclear deterrence does become something of an article of faith. We have to go on faith. If we did have a data base, there probably wouldn't be any one here to use it. There isreal susceptibility to conflating causation with correlation here. Other critics describe it as the logic of bodo. You practise kind of witch doctor medicine and certain things don't happen or do happen, and you say, what? That's down to my witch doctor
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