Too Close for Comfort¶
Lewis, P. (2014). Too Close for Comfort: Cases of Near Nuclear Use and Options for Policy.
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- Grim Trigger
- In international relations, mutual assured destruction and the doctrine of massive retaliation are near-canonical grim-trigger arrangements: a public commitment to permanent devastating response to any first use, made credible by second-strike capability, sustaining a decades-long non-use equilibrium that a single-period game would not support — and exhibiting the textbook fragility at near-deployments on mis-observed signals (Able Archer 83, the 1983 Soviet false alarm, the 1995 Norwegian rocket)
This sourceA study of cases of near nuclear use finding that nuclear weapons were nearly used inadvertently through miscalculation or error despite the usual deterrence-based reading of the non-use record. A study reporting that individual decision-making, often in disobedience of protocol, averted near nuclear use on several occasions.
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“The decades since then are commonly perceived – particularly in those countries that possess nuclear weapons – as an era of successful nuclear non-use and a vindication of the framework of nuclear deterrence.”
- In international relations, mutual assured destruction and the doctrine of massive retaliation are near-canonical grim-trigger arrangements: a public commitment to permanent devastating response to any first use, made credible by second-strike capability, sustaining a decades-long non-use equilibrium that a single-period game would not support — and exhibiting the textbook fragility at near-deployments on mis-observed signals (Able Archer 83, the 1983 Soviet false alarm, the 1995 Norwegian rocket)
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