Doctoral Research Associate at HSUBw: Deterrence theory; PHD candidate TURKU University, Finland (privater Account)
That’s why amateurs are solely talking about deterrence and professionals are talking about nuclear warfighting and how to shape a potential conflict in one sides favour. The “wisdom” that the simple acquisition of a few nuclear weapons would automatically create deterrence is highly flawed. Europe needs to urgently debate nuclear weapons policy and doctrine and yes this needs to be done publicly. Resilience can be built out of the understanding of the threat of nuclear weapons. Also we need to discuss civil defence. “Officials said that the new intelligence, which they did not describe in detail, raised serious questions about whether Russia was preparing to abandon the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which bans all orbital nuclear weapons. But since Russia does not appear close to deploying the weapon, they said, it is not considered an urgent threat. The intelligence was made public, in part, in a cryptic announcement on Wednesday by Representative Michael R. Turner, Republican of Ohio and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He called on the Biden administration to declassify the information without saying specifically what it was.”
