Nuclear Deterrence

ARTICLE: “Deterring The Undeterrable,” by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, April 18, 2008

The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitably going to break down. The inevitable has arrived.

There are four ways to deal with rogue states going nuclear: preemption, deterrence, missile defense and regime change.

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