The End of Overkill: Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

Benjamin Friedman · Christopher Preble · Matt Fay

sep. 2013 · Cato Institute

Om den här e-boken

U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them. A new paper from Benjamin H. Friedman, Christopher A. Preble and Matt Fay encourages abandonment of the triad and skepticism about the received wisdom justifying U.S. nuclear weapons’ policies. The authors suggest that shifting to a submarine-based monad would serve U.S. deterrent needs and eventually save taxpayers roughly $20 billion a year.

Om författaren

Benjamin H. Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute.

Christopher Preble is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Matt Fay is a student in the history PhD program at Temple University