Repeat a Lie Often Enough and it Becomes the Truth
By James Ragland & Adam Lowther
January 09, 2023
In an article for Defense One, nuclear disarmament advocate Tom Z. Collina chides the Biden administration’s recently released Nuclear Posture Review for maintaining the “status quo” and lacking any new ideas for addressing the Russia challenge. He goes as far as to suggest “…the Biden team has fallen back on the old Cold War playbook: when in doubt, build more nuclear bombs.”
Rather than accurately representing the current state of the United States’ nuclear arsenal or the Biden administration’s Nuclear Posture Review, Collina relies on a tactic best expressed by a quote attributed to Joseph Goebbels, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.”
As Collina well knows, at the height of the Cold War (1966-69), the United States deployed more than 30,000 nuclear weapons. As late as 1991, the United States deployed about 5,000 tactical nuclear weapons in Europe alone. The nation’s current arsenal is far smaller.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/01/09/repeat_a_lie_often_enough_and_it_becomes_the_truth_874395.html
