Mm, I can certainly see the temptation to lean towards ‘nuclear weapons likely don’t actually work as deterrents’ if one didn’t have a strong conviction in the other direction.
I was under the impression that Beatrice seemed to be tentatively arguing that maintaining any sort of nuclear weapons capability would make an individual nation less safe from attack, but looking at the transcript again I think there is some potential ambiguity that means I could be mistrepresentingher postition.
Would be very interested to hear a more fleshed-out argument though.
Mm, I can certainly see the temptation to lean towards ‘nuclear weapons likely don’t actually work as deterrents’ if one didn’t have a strong conviction in the other direction.
I was under the impression that Beatrice seemed to be tentatively arguing that maintaining any sort of nuclear weapons capability would make an individual nation less safe from attack, but looking at the transcript again I think there is some potential ambiguity that means I could be mistrepresenting her postition.
Would be very interested to hear a more fleshed-out argument though.