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...they were soon removed because they seemed redundant and excessively vulnerable, given the ability of the U.S. to hit any target in the U.S.S.R. with intercontinental ballistic missiles, bombers based in the U.S. and missiles launched from nuclear submarines. These weapons constituted the U.S.'s central, or strategic, arsenal???the triad. Then one of West Germany's brightest up-and-coming defense intellectuals and politicians, Helmut Schmidt, argued strenuously in the Bundestag that America's own deterrent of last resort constituted a nuclear umbrella of "extended deterrence" for Western Europe, sheltering NATO's first lines of defense on and around...
These are just a part of the forces in the American military arsenal???unquestionably the most powerful in the nation's history. But how long they will suffice to protect the U.S. and its interests is a question that preoccupies an increasingly broad spectrum of defense experts and politicians in Washington and other Western capitals...
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