On March 15, deputy director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Matthew Kroenig was quoted in an article in the Atlantic titled “Putin’s Nuclear Threats Are a Wake-Up Call for the World.”
All nuclear command-and-control systems, including America’s, have a “first rule of Fight Club”-like aspect to them: you don’t talk much about them, to keep your enemies guessing.
Uri Friedman
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