Kyle Harrison
research-paper

First-Strike Stability and Strategic Defenses

Glenn A. Kent and David E. Thaler 1989 View original ↗

TL;DR — RAND R-3918-AF. Part II of a methodology for evaluating strategic forces, extended to missile defence.

RAND, Project AIR FORCE, R-3918-AF. Part II of a Methodology for Evaluating Strategic Forces.

Extends the framework of its predecessor to strategic defences, asking the question that makes the literature interesting: whether defences make a first strike more or less attractive. The answer is not obvious and depends on who deploys what, in what order.

Paired with First-Strike Stability; read them together or neither.

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