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March 18, 2013

America Is Ready to Nuke You (if Need Be)

Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard

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Nuclear war is unthinkable. At least, that’s what we like to tell ourselves. Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike. Well, think again. A new study finds that, among the American public, the taboo against the use of nukes is far weaker than you might imagine.

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