Category: Nuclear War
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Nuclear Strategy 411: Balsa Shields, Titanium Swords — Defending Against Nuclear Armageddon
Taking this data and anecdata together, we arrive at the fascinating conclusion that despite maintaining a rotely and obviously dysfunctional bureaucracy that had to resort to trickery in order to implement a procurement program everyone knew to be comically inviable, the US government enacted a policy that wound up being one of the death-knells of…
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Nuclear Strategy 411: Introduction
Boiled down to its sublime essence, nuclear strategy can best be defined as — the refined art of how to kill nations while ensuring that one’s own country is not destroyed.
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Must We Shoot From The Hip? by Dr. Bernard Brodie
The surrender of Italy and Japan in the same war, and of Germany and especially of Russia in the previous war, show that the will to resist may collapse long before the physical capacity to do so — provided that that will is properly conditioned by the conqueror and that the seeds of disaffection already…