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nuclear strategy mutual assured destruction nuclear proliferation counterforce doctrine limited nuclear options countervalue targeting nuclear triad launch on warning

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Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

United States statesman

Robert S. McNamara

Robert S. McNamara

United States statesman

Maxwell Taylor, 1962.

Maxwell Davenport Taylor

United States army officer