How I Learned to Start Worrying and Loathe the Bomb

• Weren’t nukes good for global stability? The idea of Mutually Assured Destruction

• Game Theory and the First Strike problem of most nuclear weapons

• The Dr. Strangelove scenario

• Were there close calls? Yes, here are all of them

• Also, the broken arrow problem

• Can you actually get rid of nukes? Probably not….

• ...but can you get rid of the first strike problem? Probably!

• The magic of stealth boomer submarines

• Fmr. SecDef William J Perry’s modest proposal

• How would you get this done? Who do you lobby?



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