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Ep 159: Rebeccah Heinrichs on the Morality of Nuclear Weapons
Manage episode 450952548 series 2998419
Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Duty to Deter: American Nuclear Deterrence and the Just War Doctrine, joins the show to make the moral argument for why the United States should modernize and grow its nuclear arsenal.
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• 01:15 Introduction
• 01:48 A net good
• 04:50 Tactical nuclear weapons
• 10:25 The argument of disarmament
• 14:03 Cold War strategy
• 19:53 Capability and will
• 26:06 Downside of “no first use”
• 32:03 The nuclear triad
• 37:20 Russia and China
• 40:56 The moral argument
Watch today’s episode on YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Follow along on Instagram
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
168 episodes
Manage episode 450952548 series 2998419
Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Duty to Deter: American Nuclear Deterrence and the Just War Doctrine, joins the show to make the moral argument for why the United States should modernize and grow its nuclear arsenal.
▪️
Times
• 01:15 Introduction
• 01:48 A net good
• 04:50 Tactical nuclear weapons
• 10:25 The argument of disarmament
• 14:03 Cold War strategy
• 19:53 Capability and will
• 26:06 Downside of “no first use”
• 32:03 The nuclear triad
• 37:20 Russia and China
• 40:56 The moral argument
Watch today’s episode on YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Follow along on Instagram
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
168 episodes
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