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===Suicide attacks=== Advocates for [[nuclear disarmament]], such as [[Global Zero (campaign)|Global Zero]], have criticized nuclear deterrence theory. [[Sam Nunn]], [[William J. Perry|William Perry]], [[Henry Kissinger]], and [[George Shultz]] have all called upon governments to embrace the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, and created the Nuclear Security Project to advance that agenda.<ref name="globalzero">{{cite news |date=June 16, 2011 |title=Nuclear endgame: The growing appeal of zero |newspaper=The Economist |url=http://www.economist.com/node/18836134 |access-date=January 17, 2012 |archive-date=December 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203114636/http://www.economist.com/node/18836134 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010, the four were featured in a documentary film entitled ''[[Nuclear Tipping Point]]'' where proposed steps to achieve nuclear disarmament.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/18836134 |title=The Growing Appeal of Zero |date=June 18, 2011 |newspaper=The Economist |page=66 |access-date=January 17, 2012 |archive-date=December 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203114636/http://www.economist.com/node/18836134 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date=2010-06-10 |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123012569&sc=emaf |title=Documentary Advances Nuclear Free Movement |newspaper=NPR.org |publisher=NPR |archive-date=2023-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405161533/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123012569&sc=emaf |url-status=live }}</ref> Kissinger has argued, "The classical notion of deterrence was that there was some consequences before which aggressors and evildoers would recoil. In a world of suicide bombers, that calculation doesn't operate in any comparable way."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/ben-goddard/59952-cold-warriors-say-no-nukes/ |title=Cold Warriors say no nukes |author=Ben Goddard |date=2010-01-27 |work=The Hill |access-date=2013-11-15 |archive-date=2014-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213100710/http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/ben-goddard/78391-cold-warriors-say-no-nukes |url-status=live }}</ref> Shultz said, "If you think of the people who are doing suicide attacks, and people like that get a nuclear weapon, they are almost by definition not deterrable."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thebulletin.org/new-abolitionists |title=The new abolitionists |author=Hugh Gusterson |date=30 March 2012 |work=[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]] |author-link=Hugh Gusterson |access-date=15 November 2013 |archive-date=17 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217074609/http://thebulletin.org/new-abolitionists |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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