Taking a New Look at Nuclear Peace

... strategic stability. GEOPOLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND I understand that I may be branded a new “Dr. Strangelove who learned to love the bomb” from Stanley Kubrick’s political satire black comedy from the 1960s. But I believe that not only Russia with economy still suffering from inept reforms, but also all other countries could benefit from reasonable and thoughtful reliance on nuclear deterrence. At the beginning of my academic career in the 1970s and 1980s, I spent a lot of time and ...