INR 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Start I
9 Feb 2017
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Additional terms: balance of terror, first strike, second strike capability, nuclear triad, balance of capabilities, mutual vulnerability, icbm, sdi. Nuclear weapons may have helped us win them but we did not. Destructive of non-nuclear weapons: bombing in wwii, firebombing in dresden and tokyo. Tokyo est to kill 120,000 people: daisy cutter. Battle capacity: utility, since wwii we have worked to ensure we have weapons with battlefield utility. Tactical weaponry: missiles, torpedo"s, mines, yield impact of nuclear weapons in a small, located area. No: evolution in thought process and norms have occurred, us used against japan did not view their use as being morally wrong then. American public polled after the use of them and they overwhelmingly supported the use of the a-bombs against. Widely thought that nuclear weapons would become the new wave of warfare: steady evolution in warfare and weaponry from industrialization.
