https://globalsecurityreview.com/the-perilous-void-imagining-a-world-without-u-s-nuclear-deterrence/ A division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:06:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://globalsecurityreview.com/the-perilous-void-imagining-a-world-without-u-s-nuclear-deterrence/#comment-146 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:06:28 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=27503#comment-146 Aaron Holland has penned another percipient thought-piece on the vital importance of the U.S. modernizing with urgency our nuclear deterrent’s full triad and all supporting infrastructure. In this article he focuses on the sheer folly of still clinging — in today’s increasingly violent, multipolar, multi-nuclear world — to the utopian delusion of all of humanity abandoning forever all nuclear arms. To do that, methinks, would leave the world wide open to exactly the sort of years-long industrialized slaughterfests of the 20th century, updated to the 21st, that the Atomic Age has helped us escape through a balance of nuclear power between sides. Worse, a bloody, massively destructive conventional World War III would certainly bring on “Super (Fusion Bomb) Manhattan Projects” among all the major combatants. Then, during such another global conventional shooting war, when restraint and international law are already worn past the breaking point, the first belligerent to get H-bombs would surely use them — precipitating the very nuclear holocaust that “abolition” was meant to avoid! Far better to sustain a nuclear deterrence status quo, of approximate parity, between democracies and dictatorships.

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