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Nuclear Weapon Standoff Thinking, 2030 CE. @elbridgecolby , CNAS


"...U.S. nuclear weapons, however, need to do more than threaten unhindered devastation. Under continuing conditions of U.S. conven- tional superiority in areas of vital interest, nuclear weapons should play an important reserve role in U.S. planning regarding war termination and escalation control, primarily

as a deterrent to a losing adversary’s e ort

to “cheat” the rules of a war that the United States is winning and wishes to keep con- ventional. In this role, U.S. nuclear forces will provide a powerful disincentive to an adver- sary contemplating seeking to use its nuclear forces to dramatically escalate a con ict and either break U.S. or allied will or short-circuit U.S. conventional dominance.24 U.S. nuclear forces will need to be appropriately struc- tured and tailored to respond to such a limited nuclear attack (although it is also worth noting that U.S. political objectives would also need to be scaled appropriately to avoid or de-esca- late such a scenario).25..."

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