{"64845":{"#nid":"64845","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sam Nunn on Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nOp-Ed in The Wall Street Journal, \u0022Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation: The doctrine of mutual assured destruction is obsolete in the post-Cold War era\u0022 written by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn ~ 07 March 2011. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs long as there has been war, there have been efforts to deter actions a nation considers threatening. Until fairly recently, this meant building a military establishment capable of intimidating the adversary, defeating him or making his victory more costly than the projected gains. This, with conventional weapons, took time. Deterrence and war strategy were identical.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe advent of the nuclear weapon introduced entirely new factors. It was possible, for the first time, to inflict at the beginning of a war the maximum casualties. The doctrine of mutual assured destruction represented this reality. Deterrence based on nuclear weapons, therefore, has three elements:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 It is importantly psychological, depending on calculations for which there is no historical experience. It is therefore precarious.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 It is devastating. An unrestrained nuclear exchange between superpowers could destroy civilized life as we know it in days.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Mutual assured destruction raises enormous inhibitions against employing the weapons.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E**Read more by clicking on Related Link [below].\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOp-Ed with Sam Nunn in The Wall Street Journal, \u0022Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation\u0022.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Op-Ed with Sam Nunn in The Wall Street Journal"}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2011-03-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:22","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64846":{"id":"64846","type":"image","title":"Senator Sam Nunn","body":null,"created":"1449176765","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:05","changed":"1475894571","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:51","alt":"Senator Sam Nunn","file":{"fid":"192110","name":"tmh23052.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmh23052_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmh23052_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10555,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tmh23052_0.jpg?itok=u3UK_xzK"}}},"media_ids":["64846"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/spotlights\/Deterrence%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Nuclear%20Proliferation.pdf","title":"Read Full Article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"12314","name":"Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"167043","name":"Sam Nunn"},{"id":"3562","name":"Wall Street Journal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngela Levin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECISTP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=al101\u0022\u003EContact Angela Levin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3199\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Angela.Levin@inta.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}