Or to put it another way, according to your way of thinking, after the invention of the ICBM, it “should have been obvious” that humans would soon modify the strategic landscape to make ICBMs less effective.
The logic of MAD, public opinion, and the lack of direct great power conflicts, seems to have precluded them from seriously trying—which is an interesting development.
The logic of MAD, public opinion, and the lack of direct great power conflicts, seems to have precluded them from seriously trying—which is an interesting development.