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The Delicate Balance of Terror
Paper by Albert Wohlstetter, published by RAND, arguing that deterrence is not automatic.
- Dates
- 1958
- Place
- Santa Monica
- Also known as
- P-1472
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The Delicate Balance of Terror (P-1472), full text on RAND's page, RAND Corporation, 1958.
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by Albert Wohlstetter
Deterrence, however, is not automatic. While feasible, it will be much harder to achieve in the 1960's than is generally believed.
One outmoded A-bomb dropped from an obsolete bomber might destroy a great many supersonic jets and ballistic missiles.
I hope these illustrations will suggest that assuring ourselves the power to strike back after a massive thermonuclear surprise attack is by no means as automatic as is widely believed.
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