Editing Nuclear utilization target selection (section)

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'''Nuclear utilization target selection''' ('''NUTS''') is a [[hypothesis]] regarding the use of nuclear weapons often contrasted with [[mutual assured destruction|mutually assured destruction (MAD)]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Prisoners of Reason|last=Amadae|first=S.M.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2016|isbn=9-781107-064034|location=New York|pages=79–93}}</ref>  NUTS theory at its most basic level asserts that it is possible for a limited nuclear exchange to occur and that [[nuclear weapons]] are simply one more rung on the ladder of escalation pioneered by [[Herman Kahn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog41/escalation.htm|title=Magellan's Log: Herman Kahn: Escalation Ladder|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113065016/http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog41/escalation.htm|archive-date=13 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Morehead | first = Joe | title = Essays on Public Documents and Government Policies | publisher = Haworth Press | year = 1986 | page = 100 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9gH9ciHJ_DgC&q=%22Nuclear+utilization+target+selection%22&pg=PA100  | isbn = 0-86656-248-6}}</ref> This leads to a number of other conclusions regarding the potential uses of and responses to nuclear weapons.