The President’s Power To Launch Nuclear Weapons Highlights A Troubling Paradox In U.S. Strategy
Loren Thompson
Sep 19, 2023,10:29am EDT
Nuclear missile launch.
Once U.S. nuclear missiles are launched, they can't be recalled.WIKIPEDIA
The U.S. government is engaged in a comprehensive modernization of its nuclear arsenal that will replace all three types of weapon systems comprising the strategic deterrent and upgrade the command network that controls them.
The nuclear command, control and communications system, often referred to simply as NC3 in military circles, is the least visible part of the strategic posture, but also the most complex. It consists of over 200 separate programs, some of which also provide command of non-nuclear forces.
Command and control of the nuclear force is vital to the deterrence of war. As Bruce Blair, a seminal thinker on the subject, observed in a 1985 book, “If command and control fail, nothing else matters.”
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