Most Americans believe the government’s propaganda that nuclear weapons are a “deterrent” that has protected us from war. Actually, during the Cold War, neither the U.S. nor the USSR wanted to start a war against the other. But the existence of thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert meant that a nuclear war could have started – and destroyed the world – if an accident or miscalculation or computer error had occurred. The “deterrence” myth persists now 30 years after the Cold War. People who want to abolish nuclear weapons need to debunk the myth that they have deterred war. The article linked here debunks the “deterrence” myth:
https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2021/03/21/the-deterrence-myth/
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