May 25, 2012
October, 2011
- Oct 11, 2011
By Eli JacobsLast Thursday Professor Keir Lieber of Georgetown’s Security Studies program debated Carnegie’s Dr. James Acton on the merits of a nuclear strategy of damage limitation at the CSIS. Lieber took the affirmative, arguing that such a strategy is desirable, while Acton took the negative. The event made for quite lively debate. Indeed, one of the only facts the two debaters agreed upon was the definition of damage limitation: counterforce strikes designed to eliminate an adversary’s ability to deliver nuclear weapons against the U.S. or its allies. In what follows I will summarize the proceedings and propose some of my personal views on this issue.