Nuclear deterrence: wars in Ukraine and Iran reveal fundamental weaknesses
Nuclear deterrence: Wars in Ukraine and Iran reveal fundamental weaknesses: 24.08.2026, 07:05
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In 1946, Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong called nuclear weapons a “paper tiger” and argued that they could not be used to wage war to dominate other nations because they destroyed exactly what the aggressor wanted to control. When the world came closest to the point of nuclear war we know in the 1962 Cuban crisis, it was not deterrence that prevented a nuclear conflagration, but “pure, stupid happiness,” as former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson put it.
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In 1946, Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong called nuclear weapons a “paper tiger” and argued that they could not be used to wage war to dominate other nations because they destroyed exactly what the aggressor wanted to control.
according to Frankfurter Rundschau +1When the world came closest to the point of nuclear war we know in the 1962 Cuban crisis, it was not deterrence that prevented a nuclear conflagration, but “pure, stupid happiness,” as former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson put it.
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