The Americans, Soviets, British, French, and Chinese got to keep their arsenals, enabling deterrence to continue to work, while other signatories gave up the right to go nuclear.
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Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Mar. 2025
Among the many reasons is that when both sides possess nuclear arsenals, even trading limited strikes has the potential to escalate all the way up the ladder to use of the world’s most powerful bombs.
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