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Communication Disruption Attacks on NC3

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In an essay out of the workshop "Last Chance: Communicating at the Nuclear Brink," Paul Bracken argues, "in a nuclear world we should be careful about attacking enemy communications because doing so leads to greater risks of uncontrolled escalation. The worst possible situation is the one the United States is now in, that is, to not be clear in our own minds about what we are doing when it comes to disrupting communications.”
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In this essay, Paul Bracken argues “that in a nuclear world we should be careful about attacking enemy communications because doing so leads to greater risks of uncontrolled escalation. The worst possible situation is the one the United States is now in, that is, to not be clear in our own minds about what we are doing when it comes to disrupting communications.”

About the author: Paul Bracken is professor of management and political science at Yale University, and the author of The Second Nuclear Age (2012), and The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces.

This paper is accompanied by a Fourth Leg podcast: Targeting Communications and Escalation.

 

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