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Article: Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century.
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- American Diplomacy
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- January 6, 2009
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Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century
By Robert M. Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Text: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/1028_transcrip_gates_checked.pdf
On October 28, immediately before the presidential election, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates addressed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to discuss U.S. nuclear weapons policy and deterrence. Gates spoke following an introduction that emphasized Carnegie's recent publications directed toward further limiting/eliminating nuclear weapons.
After paying tribute to Carnegie's origins at the beginning of the twentieth century (and ...