Strategic stability

Towards an increasingly unstable and unpredictable future

The question of strategic stability and nuclear weapons is one of those issues that at first glance have a direct and easy answer, but once we begin to investigate and delve deeper into the details, a multitude of paradoxes and contradictory effects appear. In a broad sense, strategic stability is usually defined as the absence of incentives for one country to launch a first attack against another, for fear of the costs and damages it could suffer in retaliation. The question is, however, not so simple.

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