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Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO (Paperback)
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he role and future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe are
subjects that sometimes surprise even experts in international
security, primarily because it is so often disconcerting to
remember that these weapons still exist. Many years ago, an
American journalist wryly noted that the future of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was "a subject that drives the
dagger of boredom deep, deep into the heart"- a dismissive quip
which would have remained true right up until the moment World War
III broke out. The same goes for tactical nuclear weapons: compared
to the momentous issues that the East and West have tackled since
the end of the Cold War, the scattering of hundreds (or in the
Russian case, thousands) of battlefield weapons throughout Europe
seems to be almost an afterthought, a detail left behind that
should be easy to tidy up. Such complacency is unwise. Tactical
nuclear weapons (or NSNWs, "non-strategic nuclear weapons") still
exist because NATO and Russia have not fully resolved their fears
about how a nuclear war might arise, or how it might be fought.
They represent, as Russian analyst Nikolai Sokov once wrote, "the
longest deadlock" in the history of arms control. Washington and
Moscow, despite the challenges to the "reset" of their relations,
point to reductions in strategic arms as a great achievement, but
strategic agreements also reveal the deep ambiguity toward nuclear
weapons as felt by the former superpower rivals. The numbers in the
2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) are lower than
at any point in history, but they are based on leaving each side a
reliable ability to destroy up to 300 urban targets each.
Inflicting this incredible amount of destruction is, on its face, a
step no sane national leader would take. But it is here that
tactical weapons were meant to play their dangerous role, for they
would be the arms that provided the indispensable bridge from peace
to nuclear war. Thus, the structures of Cold War nuclear doctrines
on both sides remain in place, only on a smaller scale.
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