It was Robert McNamara, defense secretary of John Kennedy and Lindon Johnson, who set the unit of measurement for destruction and peace in the nuclear age: 400 warheads. It would have been enough to destroy a quarter of the Soviet population and half of its industrial capacity. Of course, the same number of Soviet bombs would have had the same effect on the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today both the USA and Russia have thousands of bombs that are a thousand times more powerful than the first ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, the nuclear matter does not only concern the two historical superpowers anymore. There is also China and Xi’s plans to build an arsenal with thousands of warheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only concept that stands is that of mutually assured destruction<\/em>(*). So what’s the goal? A nuclear Armageddon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n (*) principle of deterrence founded on the awareness that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was Robert McNamara, defense secretary of John Kennedy and Lindon Johnson, who set the unit of measurement for destruction and peace in the nuclear age: 400 warheads. It would have been enough to destroy a quarter of the Soviet population and half of its industrial capacity. Of course, the same number of Soviet bombs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,139,10],"tags":[153,154,152,156,157,155],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-thoughts","category-world","tag-atomic","tag-bombs","tag-nuclear","tag-peace","tag-powers","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"\n