Johnson’s nixing of nuclear pledge profound breach of deterrence doctrine

The British prime minister is both foolish and careless, but he is not planning to drop actual thermonuclear bombs on several hundred million real human beings.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain will 'reserve the right; to use nuclear weapons against unspecified 'emerging technologies' that are not necessarily nuclear.
LONDON, U.K.—In the early decades of the Cold War, this was the season when NATO defence chiefs would announce their spending plans for the next year, and they would almost always “discover” some new threat from the Soviet Union to justify the money. In the Unit...

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