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Volume 61, 2019 - Issue 5
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Nuclear Stability

Hypersonic Weapons and Strategic Stability

 
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If targeted by hypersonic weapons, Russia or China might conclude that its strategic nuclear forces were under attack when they were not.

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The author would like to thank Jerry Carson, Larry Jones, Russell Popkin, Brad Roberts and David Van Wie for helpful conversations and comments relating to this paper. Responsibility for any final confusion remains, of course, entirely with the author. Distribution Statement A for US Department of Defense contractors: this article has been approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

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Dean Wilkening

Dean Wilkening is a physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
 

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