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  1. The historical record strongly suggests that insubordination of the kind described by Woodward and the Anonymous op-ed has averted nuclear war. thedailybeast.com/the-most-patriotic-act-of-treason-in-american-history
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      "Nixon probably did not personally share the nuclear taboo – he did not think it was ‘wrong’ to use nuclear weapons – but he was constrained because others, including members of his own bureaucracy, held it." —Nina Tannenwald, "Nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War," 2007