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At present, nuclear weapons are considered legitimate, if terrible, weapons, usable as other weapons are for national purposes. In the West and in the East, strategy, military forces, readiness posture, all are based fundamentally on the threat and, ultimately, the use of nuclear weapons.
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Robert S. McNamara, ‘The Military Role of Nuclear Weapons: Perceptions and Misperceptions’, Foreign Affairs, Fall 1983, p. 72.
Desmond Ball, ‘Can Nuclear War Be Controlled?’, Adelphi Paper No. 169, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1981, p. 38.
John D. Steinbruner and Leon V. Sigal (eds), Alliance Security: NATO and the No-First-Use Question (Washington, D.C.; Brookings, 1983), Ch. 4 and Appendix.
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Lee, J.M. (1988). No First Use of Nuclear Weapons. In: Hopmann, P.T., Barnaby, F. (eds) Rethinking the Nuclear Weapons Dilemma in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09181-2_6
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