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Spalding Cold War Summary

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Spalding suggests that he once believed maintaining nuclear weapons is unnecessary as the Cold War ceased. Recently, he realized the relevance of nuclear weapons. Spalding argues that US nuclear weapons helped defeat the Soviet Union and protect Europe in the Cold War. Furthermore, he explains the use of nuclear weapons to control the limit of conflict, which is exemplified by the fact that although there were proxy wars, there wasn’t any head-on conflict between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and that there was no World War III.
Now, Spalding argues, nuclear weapons need to be taken into account in US foreign policy decisions as a number of countries do. Even though these weapons possess the potential for unbelievable destruction,
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