Ep 159: Rebeccah Heinrichs on the Morality of Nuclear Weapons

School of War · Nov 19, 2024 · 44m

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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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

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