| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - 4 In order for nuclear weapons to successfully deter escalation to nuclear war, a state needs only to have second-strike capabilities,85 that is, the ability to survive a first attack, and return the attack in such a manner as to negate the gain that the first attacker was attempting to obtain.86 The theory of deterrence is not a strategy of warfare.87 In other words, a relatively small nuclear ar
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