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Are Nuclear Weapons Useful? A Response to Mikhail Troitskiy

I felt a sense of deja vu reading Troitskiy’s polemical response . The very title of the article “Why Nuclear Weapons Are Strategically Useless?” gives rise to troubling associations. More than once in history has a particular ... ... weapons for political purposes? Incidentally, the Reagan administration did not think much of Gorbachev's initiatives on global nuclear disarmament and tried to duck the issue. Nuclear weapons are designed to solve two tasks. Their military task is to destroy ...

20.08.2015

Why Nuclear weapons are strategically useless? Response to Alexei Fenenko

... literature. However, these arguments do not put into question the key point of my essay . Nuclear Weapons and Survival States First and foremost, my argument is that possessing... ... presented their agreements as proof of their honest adherence to general and complete nuclear disarmament pursuant to Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of... ... therefore unlikely) military aggression. By contrast, the risks these weapons pose for international security are very real. Fenenko rightly notes that terrorist groups, fortunately...

17.08.2015

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