Time to relearn nuclear escalation management for the 21st century

Time to relearn nuclear escalation management for the 21st century
Time to relearn nuclear escalation management for the 21st century

“The US has spent the last three decades siloing nuclear capabilities off into their own box, and hence we are behind the ball on thinking of how to deal with an increasingly desperate foe who sees nuclear weapons not as a final instrument, but as part of the broader orchestra,” writes Robbin Laird.

Chuck Hagel’s First Test: North Korea and the Second Nuclear Age

How do you deter a nuclear power like North Korea when it looks as if they just won’t play by the rules of conventional deterrence? What is the U.S. and allied nuclear and conventional responses to the threat of war on the Korean peninsula? In a world of dynamic learning, the North Koreans watched the…