{"id":168737,"date":"2023-07-31T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/to-avoid-war-the-u-s-should-increase-its-nuclear-arsenal"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:24:34","slug":"to-avoid-war-the-u-s-should-increase-its-nuclear-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/to-avoid-war-the-u-s-should-increase-its-nuclear-arsenal","title":{"rendered":"To Avoid War, the U.S. Should Increase Its Nuclear Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-avoid-war-the-u-s-should-increase-its-nuclear-arsenal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arms reduction is a noble goal, but it\u2019s not one being pursued by some of the worst regimes in the world. The late George Shultz, former secretary of state for Ronald Reagan and a Cold Warrior, once advised against proliferating nuclear weapons. He quipped that \u201cproliferation begets proliferation,\u201d which the arms control lobby has used for decades to prevent the U.S. government from developing nukes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arms reduction is a noble goal, but it\u2019s not one being pursued by some of the worst regimes in the world. The late George Shultz, former secretary of state for Ronald Reagan and a Cold Warrior, once advised against proliferating nuclear weapons. He quipped that \u201cproliferation begets proliferation,\u201d which the arms control lobby has used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}