U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment A Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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2 Various Perspectives
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nuclear arsenals while maintaining strategic stability as well as regional assurance in the face of actual and potential proliferation of nuclear weapons by rogue states. Gen Chambers emphasized the need to recapitalize and modernize every aspect of the nuclear deterrent, specifically calling attention to the two Air Force components of the triad (land-based missiles and bombers)
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Lt Gen James Kowalski, commander, Air Force Global Strike Command, emphasized in his presentation at the first workshop session that the United States is no longer in a Cold-War setting; rather, the issue is how to get from there to today and beyond, especially given the multi-polar backdrop that now exists. As shown in Figure 2-2, Gen Kowalski indicated that nuclear deterrence is the cornerstone of strategic stability (among the great powers, no one has incentive for a first strike)
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What Is Useful? Hunter Hustus, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff of the Air Force for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration The emergence of new nuclear weapons states erodes the Cold War bi-polar nature of strategic deterrence.
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problem during the Cold War -- when NATO faced what was believed to be overwhelming Soviet conventional power, and so nuclear weapons were likely to be used to stop a Soviet advance. Today the United States enjoys conventional superiority, but the roles are reversed, and less capable entities now possess nuclear weapons.
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I present two major findings regarding Saddam's beliefs about nuclear weapons. First, Saddam and other Iraqi leaders believed that nuclear weapons provide strategic leverage, and they pursued nuclear weapons, in part, to enable conventional aggression.
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Ms. Amy Woolf, specialist in nuclear weapons policy, Congressional Research Service, shared her views on the evolution of U.S.
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