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It is a matter of historical experience that strategic doctrines lag behind developments in technology. This possibility is to be reckoned to be higher especially if rapid technological changes take place without wars having been fought for prolonged periods. Since the Second World War there has been no major international war among the industrialised states and therefore we appear to be in one such period. This is particularly true of nuclear war.
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Robert C. Aldridge, ‘A Scary Nuclear Loophole’, The International Herald Tribune, 26–27 July, 1980.
David Burnham, ‘The Case of the Missing Uranium’, Atlantic Monthly, April 1979.
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© 1983 William F. Gutteridge and Trevor Taylor
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Subrahmanyam, K. (1983). Some Reflections on the Eroding Thresholds. In: Gutteridge, W., Taylor, T. (eds) The Dangers of New Weapon Systems. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17187-3_11
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