In this episode, Philip Reiner sits down with Dr. James Acton to understand how to evaluate the risk of inadvertent escalation arising from entanglement. In a conventional conflict, each belligerent might attack the other’s command, control, communication, and intelligence (C3I) capabilities to gain a war-fighting advantage. However, because a number of C3I assets are dual-use, such attacks would degrade the target’s nuclear command-and-control system, creating serious risks of inadvertent escalation.
