I think deploying a world-killing nuclear arsenal hasn’t been bad for economic and political relationships with critical partners. I think this has been the ca

I think deploying a world-killing nuclear arsenal hasn’t been bad for economic and political relationships with critical partners. I think this has been the case with NATO, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Taiwan, and Pakistan. On the balance, this obviously doesn’t make the overall strategy sound in the long-run, but the nuclear enterprise has been myopic from the beginning.