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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"strategic stability"”.
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Hide and Seek: Remote Sensing and Strategic Stability
… developments have called the endurance of stability into question once again. This thesis addresses one particular aspect of the competition between technologies of counterforce and strategies of survivability, the use of space-based radar systems to track ground-based mobile missiles …
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Conventional Precision-Guided Hypersonic Weapons: An Unconventional Threat to Strategic Stability?
… HBGWs with intercontinental ranges be treated as strategically-salient weapons and subjected to numerical limits under arms control treaties. The second issue is that, due to hypersonic weapons' ability to maneuver throughout flight, their intended targets cannot be determined with certainty. …
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Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: Implications for Strategic Stability in the Coming Hypersonic Era
… glide vehicles represent one of the first major strategic weapons developments since the end of the Cold War. These missiles, which are capable of carrying both nuclear and non-nuclear payloads threaten to alter the strategic balance of terror that has kept that great powers at peace since the …
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A framework for comparing nuclear warhead authentication protocols
… arms control continues to be a cornerstone of strategic stability and international non-proliferation efforts. New treaties are necessary to build upon, or at least maintain, the status-quo, and will rely upon verification technologies and protocols to ensure all sides are dismantling their …
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A Survey of Strategic Arms Control
… analysis will detail the American experience in strategic arms control as it has been conducted in the post-World War II strategic environment. No single political enterprise has so involved the large powers or lent itself to the degree of public debate that has been generated by arms control. It …
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The evolution of China’s nuclear weapons program and doctrine and its implications for international security
… power in the international system increases, its strategic policies are changing. This includes its nuclear weapons program and nuclear deterrent policy, viewed as a critical guarantor of Beijing’s security and a tool that supports its growing regional and global interests. China’s evolving …
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Strategic change and the coevolution of industry-university relationships : evidence from the forest products industry
… as the firm's strategies evolve. We analyze the strategic trajectories of nine European and North American forest products companies, distilling four generic strategies, and linking those strategies to each company's university relationships as judged by publications records, academic …
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power
… nascent literature debates whether AI may upend strategic stability or revolutionize the nature of warfare, existing discussions suffer from both imprecise conceptualization and scarce data. In three essays, this dissertation evaluates the impact of AI on the nuclear balance, the conventional …
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Japan's Missile Defense
… the Cold War, when the superpowers maintained strategic stability with massive offensive nuclear arsenals (mutual assured destruction--MAD), new threats from rogue states and terrorists have forced us to rethink the credibility of MAD. But attempts to build shields against nuclear ballistic …
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An Arctic Nuclear Weapons Free Zone – In Search of a Security Architecture for the Arctic
… have failed to include serious considerations of strategic stability. In failing to fully appreciate or consider the strategic realities of the Arctic region, proposals have remained both improbable and undesirable to governments and strategic commentators. Second, and a consequence of the first, …
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Varying Priorities in Strategic Nuclear Arms Control
<p>Since the beginning of strategic nuclear arms control negotiations in 1969, Moscow and Washington have entered discussions with priorities to be met, though these differed greatly from one another. There were many driving factors for both world powers in seeking limitations and restrictions of …
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Unintended Survivability: Comparative Reactions to Israel's Nuclear Posture
The overarching goal of this study is to conduct an investigation of regional perspectives on the impact of Israel's nuclear monopoly on nuclear decisions in the Middle East. This Dissertation addresses the question as to why regional actors have taken divergent nuclear paths relative to Israel's …