If America Could Rebuild Its Nuclear-Weapons Force from Scratch...
"Start from zero, and add enough survivable nuclear weapons to destroy the regime of any nation that attacks us with nuclear arms."
Missiles and submarines, Day One, eight o’clock.
Tom Nichols is Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College and an adjunct at the Harvard Extension School. His most recent book is No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security (University of Pennsylvania, 2014) The views expressed are his own. You can follow him on Twitter: @TheWarRoom_Tom.