Volume 38, Number 12 · June 27, 1991
The Nuclear Threat: A Proposal
By Hans A. Bethe, Kurt Gottfried, Robert S. McNamara
For decades the United States and its allies have maintained nuclear forces designed for one overriding objective: to deter Soviet military action, particularly an attack against Western Europe. In addition, the United States has sought to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, but this goal was never considered as important as the first.
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