abstract:Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which an aggressor uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some action or make some concessions. It is a type of extortion, related to brinkmanship.
Unease on this score can only be intensified by the behavior of the preferred candidates for such enlightened control, namely the fearmongering and hints of "nuclear blackmail" by Mikhail Gorbachev and his cadre of supporters.