ABSTRACT
The popularity of conventional nuclear strategy seems to have expanded under the Ronald Reagan Administration Deterrence as a concept and a reality has tended to become less and less satisfying as a strategy for the US govenunent as well as for many conventionalists. Although superpower mutual vulnerability may exist as an inescapable condition in the nuclear world, more and more conventional nuclear strategic thinking leaves the impression that US strategy aims at finding technological solutions able to alter this condition. The growth of an anti-nuclear movement in the United States during the early 1980s was in response to the government’s public advocacy of limited nuclear war plans. The evolution of the nuclear doctrine and weapons might strengthen a ‘cult of the offensive’ where a strategic posture based on offense would be perceived as the best way to get security.
