Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Nuclear Forces in the Days to Come
... survivability of national strategic forces Last year, we took a brief look at possible alternatives for the evolution of strategic nuclear forces at the dawn of the nuclear era in the 1950–60s. Following a period of “creative experimentation,” the nuclear triad had more or less settled in its classic form, and it has since survived to the present day without any fundamental changes. But this is bound to end very soon. Certainly, to say that the nuclear triad has not changed after its full deployment ...