{
  "id": 8863746,
  "title": "Dangerous logic behind America’s emerging nuclear war strategy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/dangerous-logic-behind-americas-emerging-nuclear-war-strategy",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-21T06:21:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/dangerous-logic-behind-americas-emerging-nuclear-war-strategy/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Elbridge Colby, the US undersecretary of defense for policy, wants to make American nuclear threats more credible to make nuclear war less likely. However, achieving the first objective may undermine the second. In recent remarks to the US Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium, Colby outlined an emerging approach to deterrence built around providing the US president […] The post Dangerous logic…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}