ARMS RACES ARE NOT INEVITABLE SINCE A LARGE FORCE IS UNNECESSARY TO DETER Kenneth N. Waltz. Nuclear Myths and Political Realities The American Political Science Review, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep, 1990), p. 736. We do not need ever-larger forces to deter. Smaller forces, so long as they are invulnerable, would be quite sufficient. Yet the vulnerability of fixed, land-based missiles has proved worrisome. Those who do the worrying dwell on the vulnerability of one class of weapon. The militarily important question, however, is not about the vulnerability of one class of weapon but about the vulnerability of a whole strategic-weapons system. Submarine-launched missiles make land- based missiles invulnerable since destroying only the latter would leave thousands of strategic warheads intact.
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