Feaver says academics have some ideas. Anyone know what he's referring to? (Also, he's really excited about upgrading NC3.)
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how would you like to see them decoupled? (Hard for me to see Congress weighing in first strikes...but I haven't thought about it near as much)
NFU ultimately is a strategic question. One can (if one wants to) imagine situations where a first use would be useful/necessary/would save more lives than the alternative/etc. At least, the military can imagine such things (and has).
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Whereas the Presidential authority issue could be changed in a lot of ways, including which preserve first use, but just don't centralize that authority in the whim of one human being.
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You could have a NFU policy but keep Presidential unilateral authority (which would be unilateral retaliation authority), you could have non-unilateral authority but not have NFU. They can (and should be) considered as separate issues IMO.
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got it, thanks!
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