Strategic Stability and the Global Race for Technological Leadership

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Strategic Stability and the Global Race for Technological Leadership

Improvements in military technology have created new potential threats to nuclear forces and their command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) systems.

By James M. Acton

Published on Nov 15, 2020

German Federal Foreign Office

About the Author

James M. Acton

Jessica T. Mathews Chair, Co-director, Nuclear Policy Program

Acton holds the Jessica T. Mathews Chair and is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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