Comments by "" (@SusCalvin) on "Oppenheimer's warning lives on" video.

  1. The actors who want to dissuade attackers by building a nuclear arsenal are relatively open about their strategic arsenals. I can't threaten you with an option you don't know exists.
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  2. The USA had a round of budget debates in the armed forces immediately following the end of WW II and the demobilization. The argument of the Air Force was that the Air Force was the branch that could fight a nuclear war, and therefore the only necessary one. This changed when the need for army troops and conventional warfare remained in Korea, Germany, Vietnam etc and the USA needed a more flexible option than only nukes. But there was a period where the army tried to keep up and launch the "pentomic army" that would train to fight through a nuclear barrage.
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  3. I think the russian nuclear devices do their job right now. They guarantee a continued NATO non-intervention in Ukraine. Not peace, but the freedom of action of Russia. They deter a regime change from abroad.
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