1. The Role of Nuclear Weapons in a Post Cold War World of Terr
... that realization was born the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD) and the policy that the U.S. would only use a nuclear warhead in response to a nuclear attack on the U.S. At that point, nuclear weapons were no longer weapons of war, they were political tools useful for avoiding nuclear war and manipulating domestic and international politics. Other nation states used them as symbols of their place in ... the world pecking order. US Policy began to shift subtlety in 1990 to also deter ... biological and chemical attacks when Saddam Hussein was threatened with the use of nucle...
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