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Much Safer Means of Nuclear Deterrence

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The perceived need to "launch on warning" is only one of the vulnerabilities and instabilities in the present system, but its elimination would be a start.

Observers can easily be misled by the fact that we have not had a nuclear exchange for about seven decades, but this is false comfort in the case of a system that disallows learning from experience, because one attack would be too many.

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