Instead, he says, we should be concentrating on non-nuclear weapons like tanks and artillery pieces.
Fundamentally, the notion of flexible response was to "increase the ability to confine the response to non-nuclear weapons".
The 1990 treaty led to the destruction or removal of more than 53,000 non-nuclear weapons.
It is the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the world.
Air power alone, using non-nuclear weapons, has never forced an enemy to give up.
This mission included determining the reliability of nuclear and non-nuclear weapons stored around the world.
About a quarter of the 250 B-52's have been assigned to missions with non-nuclear high-explosive weapons in a conventional conflict.
Conventional, non-nuclear, weapons have always been more costly than nuclear arms.
A treaty to reduce non-nuclear weapons is said to be on the table for next year's meeting of the two superpowers.
At the time of development, it was touted as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed.
