Author profile: James Chisem

James Chisem is an undergraduate student reading International Politics
and Strategic Studies at Aberystwyth University. His academic interests
include the thermonuclear revolution, collective memory of the Second
World War, and United States space policy during the 1950s and 1960s.

Nuclear Strategy and Deterrence: An Attempt to Rationalise the Irrational?

James Chisem • Apr 18 2011 • Essays

Nuclear strategy developed as a means to create a rational framework of deterrence for the seemingly irrational nature of nuclear war. Rational individuals may only be so when they exist in a rational context. Once placed in an irrational situation, it is questionable as to whether a person, or on organisation could continue to act in a rational manner.

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