Gordon G. Chang has put the case which has not been seriously considered in the public debates in Australia that the old cold War doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction re nuclear missiles is no longer accepted by either the Russians or communist Chinese. The same point has been extensively documented by the late Dr Peter Pry, but below is a chilling summary. The main point is the at least for the Russians, they believe that they have a massive nuclear advantage now over the Americans, and that a first strike would be a case of the policy of “escalate to deescalate,” that after one bomb, the US will not want a further confrontation.
It is a dangerous strategy of nuclear chicken, that could well end civilisation. The stakes are high and cannot be sanely denied.
