We must be more willing, not only to accept the prospect of limited war but, as Kissinger does in his book of a half century ago, to accept the prospect of a limited nuclear war between states.

我们不仅要接受有限战争的前景，而且更要有意愿接受基辛格半世纪前在书中提到的国与国之间有限核战争的前景。

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The danger now is not so much threat of a first strike but the danger that both sides will come to believe that nuclear war can be limited, won and survived.

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Nuclear weapons, he thinks, make total war less likely, limited conflict more so.

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But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.

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