Ep 159: Rebeccah Heinrichs on the Morality of Nuclear Weapons
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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Show Notes
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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