Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
School of War
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The Nuclear Deterrent Triad
The submarine leg of the triad is the most survivable leg for the simple fact that unlike ICBM, launch silos or, you know, bombers, it's much harder to figure out where submarines are. So whatever happens first, the submarines are always there to hit back. The idea of an assured second response is simply that there's no point in trying to do that disarming or disabling first strike,.
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