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Publication Date: July 1985
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Francis P. Hoeber
Research Area: Military and defense
Keywords: National security
Type: Report
Abstract:
Since it can never be certain that U.S. nuclear retaliation will be carried out or be effective in the face of a Soviet first-attack, the best way to enhance deterrence--of nuclear war, conventional war, or.nuclear coercion--is by increasing the uncertainties of the costs and outcome for the Kremlin. The best means of achieving this would appear to be with a strategic defense.