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100 _aLim Andrew S. and Fearon, James D.
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245 _aThe conventional balance of terror: America needs a new triad to restore its eroding deterrence
260 _aForeign Affairs
300 _a104(3), May-Jun, 2025: p.122-135
520 _aIn 1959, the American political scientist Albert Wohlstetter argued in these pages that the United States did not possess a sufficient second-strike capability to provide stable nuclear deterrence against the Soviet Union. A year later, the economist and strategist Thomas Schelling offered what has become the seminal definition of strategic nuclear stability. “It is not the ‘balance’—the sheer equality or symmetry in the situation—that constitutes mutual deterrence,” he wrote in The Strategy of Conflict. “It is the stability of the balance.” – Reproduced https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/conventional-balance-terror-lim-fearon
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