Some Advice for Donald Trump on U.S. Nukes

Some Advice for Donald Trump on U.S. Nukes

Tactical nuclear weapons might be worryingly flexible, but they’re useless in one of the few scenarios that would plausibly endanger the U.S.’s very existence: strategic nuclear warfare with a rival state. Battlefield nukes don’t fulfill Bleich and Jacobovitz’s moral or strategic criteria. And interestingly, a 2014 study in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists found that the Israeli nuclear arsenal likely consists entirely of city-busting strategic weapons, suggesting that generations of Israeli leaders have viewed the country’s nukes as a guarantor of the state’s long-term survival, rather than a viable tactical option.

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