Stability issues in reconstitution by weapon addition
Abstract
Reconstitution of strategic forces by the unilateral uploading of additional weapons from initially symmetric modest force levels reduces first strike stability. These changes are quantified and traced to changes in first and second strike costs in a model of missile exchanges in which both strikes are optimized analytically.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 560822
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-97-3149
ON: DE98001555; TRN: 98:000305
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Aug 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; STABILITY; WARFARE; MILITARY STRATEGY; ARMS CONTROL
Citation Formats
Canavan, G H. Stability issues in reconstitution by weapon addition. United States: N. p., 1997.
Web. doi:10.2172/560822.
Canavan, G H. Stability issues in reconstitution by weapon addition. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/560822
Canavan, G H. 1997.
"Stability issues in reconstitution by weapon addition". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/560822. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/560822.
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title = {Stability issues in reconstitution by weapon addition},
author = {Canavan, G H},
abstractNote = {Reconstitution of strategic forces by the unilateral uploading of additional weapons from initially symmetric modest force levels reduces first strike stability. These changes are quantified and traced to changes in first and second strike costs in a model of missile exchanges in which both strikes are optimized analytically.},
doi = {10.2172/560822},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/560822},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997},
month = {Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997}
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