The Second Nuclear Age is a fact. In recent decades, the stability of the Cold War, in which Mutual Assured Destruction made the use of nuclear weapons and direct conventional confrontation between the superpowers unreasonable, has only cracked. This predictable scenario, which dissuaded the great powers from intervening beyond the clearly marked lines and which distinguished between them and the second-rate powers by the much clearer scale of the number of warheads, is hardly sustainable anymore. In this way, the bipolar world has given way to a new scenario in which new powers and new strategic dyads and triads call into question everything we knew about nuclear deterrence and exchange and, with this, a Second World War has begun. Nuclear Era with unpredictable consequences.
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