Nuclear Weapons - Dangerous?
- Created by: Will Miller
- Created on: 31-05-13 07:55
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- Nuclear Weapons
- Stabilised
- Provided the fear necessary for the superpowers to cooperate
- Threat of war - had to respect sphere of influence
- Only massive retaliation - deter any conflict
- Leaders well aware of dangers - avoid
- Knew the fragility of rationality - cooperate
- Nash Equilibrium - neither would initiate conflict
- MAD caused a rethink of strategy and of actions
- MAD - if no-one could survive, no war
- Nuclear holocaust - survival of humanity + states depended on no war
- Used only to gain concessions- means of diplomacy
- Dangerous
- Sheer destructive power of the weapons
- Brinkmanship proved very risky
- Huge number of nukes each side pocessed
- Put everyone on the battlefield
- Few cases in history when weapons developed and not used
- Barach Plan showed arms race would never be peacfeul
- Misunderstanding at the other's reasoning
- No way of committing the other to a limited war - would esculate
- One man had the power to bring about complete distruction
- Technology changed - human habit of violence hadn't
- Stabilised
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