{"id":755603,"date":"2022-07-22T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T05:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=250132"},"modified":"2022-07-22T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T05:54:20","slug":"deterrencelessness-nuclear-threats-neither-credible-nor-viable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/22\/deterrencelessness-nuclear-threats-neither-credible-nor-viable\/","title":{"rendered":"Deterrencelessness: Nuclear Threats Neither Credible Nor Viable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threatening to make attacks with nuclear weapons is known as \u201cdeterrence\u201d when the United States does it, but it\u2019s called madness, blackmail, or \u201cterrorism\u201d if Russia, China, or North Korea does. U.S. Air Force thermonuclear weapons, about 100-to-150 of them known as B61s, are stationed at two NATO bases in Italy, and at one NATO  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/22\/deterrencelessness-nuclear-threats-neither-credible-nor-viable\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/22\/deterrencelessness-nuclear-threats-neither-credible-nor-viable\/\">Deterrencelessness: Nuclear Threats Neither Credible Nor Viable<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/22\/deterrencelessness-nuclear-threats-neither-credible-nor-viable\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threatening to make attacks with nuclear weapons is known as \u201cdeterrence\u201d when the United States does it, but it\u2019s called madness, blackmail, or \u201cterrorism\u201d if Russia, China, or North Korea does. U.S. Air Force thermonuclear weapons, about 100-to-150 o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755604,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755603\/revisions\/755604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}