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Strategic stability and regional security

Adelphi Series, 2014
China's nuclear arsenal has long been an enigma. It is a small force, based almost exclusively on land-based ballistic missiles, maintained at a low level of alert and married to a no-first-use doctrine – all choices that would seem to invite attack in a crisis.
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Strategic Stability and Chinese Gambit

World Economy and International Relations, 2022
During the last three years, the prospects of engaging China in the process of nuclear disarmament has moved to the forefront of the arms control agenda. In 2019–2020, it was made the top issue by the Donald Trump’s administration when it withdrew from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty) and ...
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A Start on Strategic Stabilization

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1969
Can strategic armament be stabilized by limiting offensive forces? This question was raised in a paper which was presented at the 18th Pugwash Conference held in Nice, France, September 1968, by D. G. Brennan who is a member of the Hudson Institute.
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Strategic Stability Model Building Technique

IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1990
Abstract The concept of “strategic stability” is analysed by the methods of mathematical modelling. A two-level interactive modelling system is represented. It includes a relatively simple two-dimensional visual model and a sophisticated multy-dimensional model that takes into account actual characteristics and parameters of real weapons systems.
A. Piontkowsky, A. Skorokhodov
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Star Wars and Strategic Stability

1989
For several decades strategic stability in the world has rested on the principle of mutual nuclear deterrence (or mutually assured destruction — MAD). This principle implies that either of the opposing sides can inflict a devastating nuclear strike with unacceptable consequences for the other side in response to the nuclear first strike ...
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The Stability of Strategic Plasticity

2009
Recent research into the evolution of higher cognition has piqued an interest in the effect of natural selection on the ability of creatures to respond to their environment (behavioral plasticity). It is believed that environmental variation is required for plasticity to evolve in cases where the ability to be plastic is costly. We investigate one form
Smead, Rory, Zollman, Kevin J.S.
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Strategic Defense and International Stability.

1988
Abstract : These papers grew out a workshop on Strategic Defenses and international Stability held at Los Alamos on October 30, 1987. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for National Security Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The purpose of the workshop was to present a broad discussion of the relationship between stability and ...
Stephen E. Hunter, Fred S. Hoffman, Kenneth N. Waltz, George H. Quester, John J. Weltman   +4 more
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What Factors Affect Strategic Stability?

Russia in Global Affairs, 2022
Alexander G. Savelyev, Olga M. Alexandria   +1 more
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Analysis of Strategic Stability Issues

1997
After the end of cold war, military situation in the world is heading from bipolarity to formation of several regions, each of which exhibits a local multipolar system. These multiple poles in defending their interests may lead to more confrontations and hence less stability.
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Strategic stability and arms control

Adelphi Series, 2016
The US government is planning to spend an estimated US$1 trillion over 30 years to modernise or replace its triad of air-, land- and sea-based nuclear weapons. These plans have huge implications for the security of the United States and its allies, its public finances and the salience of nuclear weapons in global politics. This Adelphi book argues that
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