No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security

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No Use UNIVER SIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS PHIL ADELPHIA No Use Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security Thomas M. Nichols A volume in the Haney Foundation Series, established in 1961 with the generous support of Dr. John Louis Haney. Copyright 䉷 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nichols, Thomas M. No use : nuclear weapons and U.S. national security / Thomas M. Nichols.— 1st ed. p. cm.— (Haney Foundation series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4566-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Nuclear weapons—Government policy—United States. 2. National security—United States. 3. United States—Military policy. 4. Nuclear disarmament—United States. 5. Security, International. I. Title. II. Series: Haney Foundation series. UA23.N5495 2014 355.0⬘’170973—dc23 2013026524 For my father, Nick James Nichols, who saw the beginning of the nuclear age, and my daughter, Hope Virginia Nichols, who I hope will see its end General Black: We’re talking about the wrong subject. We’ve got to stop war, not limit it. Professor Groteschele: That is not up to us, General Black. Black: We’re the ones who know most about it. General Stark: You’re a soldier, Blackie. You carry out policy. You don’t make it. Black: Don’t kid yourself, Stark. The way we say a war can be fought is making policy. If we say we can fight a limited war with nuclear weapons, we let everyone off the hook. It’s what they want to hear. We can just keep on doing what we’re doing, and nobody really gets hurt. Groteschele: Are you advocating disarmament, General Black? Black [pauses]: I don’t know. —Fail-Safe (1964) ...