Title: The Essential Irrelevance Of Nuclear Weapons Will Colleran
Author: John Mueller
Publisher/Date: MIT Press – 1988
What are the main points of the author’s (or authors’) argument?
A point that was very prevalent in this article was deterrence. This is
officially defined as ‘The action of discouraging an action or event through
instilling doubt or fear of the consequences’. In terms of the reading, they are
talking about stopping an attack by threatening something. Nuclear weapons are
a huge threat that likely prevented more world wars because of the huge threat
that they pose on the world.
