Sadly, the present scenario is the classic arms race one: vast sums will be spent by both sides uselessly as their respective economies crumble.
But, maybe all this is a tempest in a teapot, or as the Arab saying has it, salt, which disappears in a drop of water. Andrei Liakhov of Withers Worldwide, London, argues that since the 1960s, "the destructive force of nuclear weapons made them the best deterrent against another global war." That the proliferation of nuclear states since then merely reinforces this MAD (mutual assured destruction) logic. That rather than a grandiose plan targeting only US-Russian nuclear weapons, strengthening the non-proliferation treaty -- which would of necessity include Israel -- is the way to go.
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