US must stop playing with nuclear hellfire

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2987941/us_must_stop_playing_with_nuclear_hellfire.html
Date Written:  2016-07-26
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19834

The chances of nuclear destruction are higher than in the Cold War due to recent US foreign policy actions, including the positioning of armed forces positioned on Russia's borders.

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But don't these examples prove that accidental nuclear war is unlikely? That conclusion is a dangerous illusion, argues Perry, because the price of being mistaken is so high and because the world is a more dangerous place than it was in 1980.

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And given the old rule in nuclear warfare - use 'em, or lose 'em - uncertainty is the last thing one wants to engender in a nuclear-armed foe. Indeed, the idea of no "specific nuclear thresholds" is one of the most extraordinarily dangerous and destabilizing concepts to come along since the invention of nuclear weapons.