SOURCE: Pacific Standard via Salon
3-19-13
tags: nuclear weapons, polls, public opinion, actual nuclear option
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3-19-13
America stopped worrying, loves the Bomb
Breaking Newstags: nuclear weapons, polls, public opinion, actual nuclear option
Nuclear war is unthinkable. At least, that’s what we like to tell ourselves. Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike.
Slim Pickens joyfully rides a nuclear bomb onto a Russian target in the classic satire, “Dr. Strangelove.”
Well, think again. A new study finds that, among the American public, the taboo against the use of nukes is far weaker than you might imagine.
“When people are faced with scenarios they consider high-stakes, they end up supporting—or even preferring—actions that initially seem hard to imagine,” said Daryl Press, an associate professor at the Dartmouth College Department of Government....
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