Debates on Dynamite

... any strategic logic. Glenn Snyder once described this as the “stability–instability paradox.” Consequently, in today’s context, the proxy war waged by the United States and its allies against Russia is not a “bug” but a “feature” of nuclear deterrence. This paradox is confirmed not only in theory but also in historical practice. At a minimum, the Vietnam and Afghan conflicts of the bipolar era constituted proxy wars in which one nuclear superpower confronted the other indirectly; yet they were never interpreted as a failure of nuclear deterrence. Consequently, nuclear weapons cannot be used to eliminate instability ...