No campaign on a com- parable scale is likely ever again to be carried on between great belligerents with HE or other chemical bombs, not only because of the availability of
weapons but-in the unlikely event that nuclear weapons could be outlawed and stay outlawed in an otherwise total war-also because technological developments have made long-range sorties with bombers or missiles far too costly to be acceptable as means of delivering bombs of such very limited capability.
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