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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: prediction
30 May 2023 Acquired Lockheed Martin
“The reason that it was worth trying was that if you could create a naval based intercontinental nuclear strike capability, it completely changes the strategic landscape of deterrence, first strike versus second strike, and retaliation.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 30 May 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Lockheed Martin
Transcript context
…You could imagine another issue, which is these things have rockets on them. You have to not destroy the launchpad, which is the submarine full of American humans while launching it. Yeah. This is a big challenge. The reason that it was worth trying was that if you could create a naval based intercontinental nuclear strike capability, it completely changes the strategic landscape of deterrence, first strike versus second strike, and retaliation. What we were really afraid of, we thought the Soviets would pursue a first strike policy if they felt they were able to. The way that they would do that is if they felt that they could, in that first strike, knock out all of our nuclear capabilities. If they could target all of our land-based ICBMs, incapacitate them, then we will be incapable of responding with a second strike, and then they could blow up our cities and whatnot. If all of a sudden you have a mobile, naval-based missile system, that completely changes the chessboard. It's quite the deterrent.…
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