The Future of Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation with Fred Kaplan
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The War on Ticks in the Arctic Circle
By the 19 eighties, the soviets had an air base in the arctic circle. It couldn't even be used for two thirds of the year, it was too cold. None the less, the siop allocated 17 nuclear weapons to this one air base. I mean, that's the kind of bite. By by the mid eighties, by even a little bit past the end of the cold war, the process of generating targets, which generated further weapons, which generated even more targets, had become so broke that you had this kind of over kill. And hat this dis got to be more in the later siups.
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