Hypersonic Weapons and Strategic Stability

2019/09/03 by Dean Wilkening, Dean A. Wilkening · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Nuclear Issues and Defense

paper · doi:10.1080/00396338.2019.1662125

Abstract

If targeted by hypersonic weapons, Russia or China might conclude that its strategic nuclear forces were under attack when they were not.

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