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Friday, May 9, 2014

Welcome to Russian Nuclear Weapons 101


May 09, 2014 02:00 am | Rebecca M. Miller

A blast from the Soviet past? You decide.

Tom NicholsAmericans don’t think very much about nuclear weapons, and they certainly don’t think very often about their own arsenal, at least until something goes wrong with it, like the recent scandals involving the U.S. ICBM force. The Obama administration completed a nuclear posture review in 2010, a document that supposedly lays out the purpose and future of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Like previous U.S. reviews conducted in 1994 and 2002, it sank without a trace. The fact of the matter is that nuclear weapons and their mission simply do not matter much to post–Cold War American leaders.

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