…be totally defenseless in the event of a nuclear attack, but =ould strike back with the ultimate weapon of retaliation. The submarines are "a way of guaranteeing that=the enemy will not be tempted to strike pre-emptively with non- conventiona= weapons and get away scot-free," as Israeli Admiral Avraham Botzer p=ts it. Questions of Global=Political Responsibility In this version of =it-for-tat, known as nuclear second-strike capability, hundreds of thousan=s of dead are avenged with an equally…