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Risks of Nuclear War & the Escalation Ladder | Jon Wolfsthal

Hidden Forces

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Is There a Nuclear Triad?

The idea is that we have so many different ways of launching nuclear weapons that nobody could be sure to get them all at once. And the same is true for russia, that we could not eliminate all their systems, and therefore they know what we are not about to attack. So if with all those dynamics, the concern is that one side or the other might feel they have no choice but to strike, and therefore get a nuclear war that another side wants.

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