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Naval War College: Full Spring 2001 Issue NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIE COLLEGE WAR NAVAL NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW W Spring 2001 Volume LIV, Number 2 Spring 2001 Spring S E T A T S D E T I N U E H T N A V A L W A R C O L L E RI B RI A G V I U O E S T M AR I V I C Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2001 1 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Naval War College Review, Vol. 54 [2001], No. 2, Art. 1 Cover The first large-scale thermonuclear deto- nation—the 10.4-megaton IVY MIKE test of 1 November 1952, at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Pacific Proving Grounds on Eniwetok Atoll in the Mar- shall Islands. The test was designed to confirm, at the megaton level, the effec- tiveness of the newly discovered “Teller-Ulam” radiation “trigger,” an advance that made fusion explosions practicable. The explosion was unexpect- edly powerful, five hundred times more so than the fission-technology FAT MAN of 1945. It left a crater 164 feet deep and 6,240 feet across where the islet upon which the device rested had been, and it wrecked the unmanned observation equipment on nearby islets. On islands miles away, where scientists had intended to examine birds and trees, etc., to mea- sure biological effects, all animal and veg- etable life was simply destroyed. Warships over thirty miles out to sea endured sear- ing heat. The mushroom cloud rose some forty thousand feet and spread out over a hundred miles. IVY MIKE was not a “bomb” but a test-bed; the Soviet Union made the same break- through the next year. Successive tests were devoted to developing serviceable thermonuclear weapons, or “hydrogen bombs,” ultimately producing the vast ar- senals that are the subject of one of this is- sue’s themes—reductions in nuclear weapons. On page 13 begins an exchange of views between Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret.), a former president of the Naval War College, and two members of the College’s research faculty. https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol54/iss2/1 2 5/14/01 Monday, May 14, 2001 3:32:27 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Naval War College: Full Spring 2001 Issue NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Spring 2001 Volume LIV, Number 2 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS 686 Cushing Road Newport, RI 02841-1207 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2001 3 5/14/01 Monday, May 14, 2001 3:32:28 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Naval War College Review, Vol. 54 [2001], No. 2, Art. 1 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW ADVISORY BOARD Professor Inis L. Claude, Jr. Dr. Norman Friedman Professor Colin Gray The Naval War College Review was established in 1948 as a forum for discus- Captain Wayne P. 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The United States does not need a reserve of nuclear weapons to take the offensive; something in the neighborhood of two hundred nuclear warheads will do for deterrence and retaliation. How did this nation ever get to a nuclear arsenal of 32,500 weapons? What Deters? Strength, Not Weakness . 24 Roger W. Barnett The risks of sharp reductions are of the greatest magnitude, and so are the possible consequences. “Existential deterrence,” the pivotal concept in Admiral Turner’s scheme, is a very risky and dan- gerous approach to nuclear deterrence—for if it fails, it fails catastrophically. Thinking about the Unthinkable Unreasonable Exuberance? . 36 Andrew L. Ross Defense planners will not rush to embrace Admiral Turner’s nuclear-escrow scheme. Yet the de- tails of the process Admiral Turner seeks to set in motion should not be allowed to obscure the grand purpose of the process and its significance. He is on the right track. 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