Emerging Technologies, Emerging Challenges: The Potential Employment of New Technologies in Future PLA NC3
Elsa Kania assesses how emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, fifth-generation telecommunications, and quantum communications—may affect China’s NC3. Kania concludes: “Although certain of these technologies could enhance China’s confidence in its NC3 in ways that may prove stabilizing, there are also reasons for concern that the potential introduction of such complex, untested technologies could also create new risks and exacerbate the threat of miscalculation.”
5G, AI, China, cyberspace, early warning, fiber-optic, fifth generation, force posture, hypersonic, jamming, missile penetration, mobile missile, modernization, NC3, nuclear, PLA, quantum, radio, rapid reaction, risk, rocket force, satellite, second artillery force, secure, secure communications, stability, submarine, super low frequency, targeting, technologies, underwater communications, very low frequency, war-fighting
September 5, 2019
United Kingdom: Nuclear Weapons Command, Control, and Communications
Rear Admiral John Gower argues that the UK Nuclear Weapon Command Control and Communications (UK NC3) architecture is designed and operated to support SSBN strategic nuclear deterrence in all foreseeable circumstances from peacetime to nuclear conflict. "Through multiple paths and frequencies, fall-back and alternative systems, and with dedicated and unique encryption and processes, it delivers continuous availability for the Prime Minister should a decision to launch be made," he says.
deterrence, Dual Capable Aircraft, dual-key, firing message, forward bases, Global Positioning System, helicopter, intercontinental ballistic missile, nuclear, permissive action link, Scotland, stability, Strategic Weapons Facility, strike command, submarine, transmission path, Trident, United Kingdom, USAF Strategic Air Command
August 15, 2019
