The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Can Deter Both China and Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : As a result, the United States is likely to greatly exaggerate the danger posed by two nuclear peers and overreact by pursuing policies that increase these dangers.
51% : Counterforce attacks intended to save the lives of a state's own civilians are one of the few kinds of nuclear operations potentially consistent with international humanitarian law.
50% : Second, allowing international humanitarian law to guide U.S. nuclear strategy could in fact make a nuclear war more likely.
36% : Today, the most common critique of is that infrastructure targeting, in contrast to counterforce targeting, is immoral and violates the law of armed conflict, which aims to minimize human suffering and the loss of civilian life.
36% : But with three states involved, there would be no mutually acceptable formula for arms limitations.

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