Rejoinder: A Nuclear Exchange on Survivable Normative Biases
Rejoinder: A Nuclear Exchange on Survivable Normative Biases

Summary/Abstract: I would like to begin by thanking the editors of New Perspectives for hosting this forum on The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy and the contributors for lending their valuable time and expertise to seriously engage with this book and the important subject of nuclear strategy. The reviewers found much to like about the book. Hamidi ‘‘applauded’’ the book’s central question: seeking to understand the puzzling gap between the theory and practice of nuclear deterrence. Ditrych ‘‘admired [its] courage . . . civility . . . and conviction’’ in challenging prevailing conventional wisdom. He found my Superiority-Brinkmanship Synthesis Theory ‘‘elegant and persuasive,’’ while Onderco approvingly quotes it as ‘‘the most sophisticated case for strategic superiority.’’

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