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Trump’s Acting National Security Adviser Said Nuclear War With USSR Was Winnable
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| Last Edited | RP Sep 13, 2019 05:04pm |
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| Author | Nick Robins-Early |
| News Date | Friday, September 13, 2019 08:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Donald Trump’s acting national security adviser, former Reagan administration official Charles Kupperman, made an extraordinary and controversial claim in the early 1980s: nuclear conflict with the USSR was winnable and that “nuclear war is a destructive thing but still in large part a physics problem.”
Kupperman, appointed to his new post on Tuesday after Trump fired his John Bolton from the job, argued it was possible to win a nuclear war “in the classical sense,” and that the notion of total destruction stemming from such a superpower conflict was inaccurate. He said that in a scenario in which 20 million people died in the U.S. as opposed to 150 million, the nation could then emerge as the stronger side and prevail in its objectives. |
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