When tensions between India and Pakistan reach a boiling point in 2025, a terrorist attack on an Indian site sparks a chain of events that could lead to nuclear war. Pakistan responds to the invading army with a demonstration of force, detonating several small nuclear bombs. The United States must prepare to win a nuclear war, or risk losing it. O'Brien, a former national security adviser to the White House, proposed conventional responses to deter Russian nuclear escalation.
To understand why Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons and how the United States can respond, it is necessary to recalibrate strategic logic for a nuclear environment. The world watched with concern in February when Putin ordered his nuclear forces to a higher state of alert three days after the start of the invasion in Ukraine. Many people believe that large-scale nuclear war would result in the extinction of the human species, although not all analysts agree on the assumptions underlying these nuclear winter models. Comparisons with supervolcanoes are more deceptive than useful because of the different aerosols released, the likely height of nuclear weapons fuses, and the location scattered around the world of these potential nuclear detonations.
Part of the nuclear war machine had been dismantled, the number of warheads was reduced, the bombers were removed from the state of alert and weapons were withdrawn from Europe. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has kept the nuclear nightmare at bay for more than four decades. Most analysts agreed that, once the first nuclear exchange had occurred, escalation to global nuclear war would probably be inevitable. They reached an agreement with the nuclear-weapon states (NWS) whereby, in exchange for intrusive end-use control over nuclear and nuclear-related technology and material, they were granted privileged access to nuclear technology, components and material. The possibility of using nuclear weapons in war is generally divided into two subgroups, each with different effects and potentially combated with different types of nuclear weapons.
The first is a limited nuclear war (sometimes attack or exchange), which refers to the controlled use of nuclear weapons, so there is an implicit threat that a nation may still intensify its use of nuclear weapons. The second is a large-scale nuclear war, which could consist of a large number of nuclear weapons used in an attack directed at an entire country, including military, economic and civil objectives. Thanks to its observance of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (not ratified), the United States has not detonated a nuclear bomb since 1992. Lieu's bill would not only prevent Trump from launching a nuclear weapon on Syria “because he is angry with Assad or some equally impulsive initiative”; it would also prevent the launch in response to intelligence of a potential threat (however, it would not prevent a response). In case missiles arrive).However, concern persists in many circles that there has been a relative decline in the security of nuclear weapons in recent years, and that terrorists or others may seek to exercise control over (or use) nuclear weapons, militarily applicable technology or nuclear materials and fuel. The Israeli government has never admitted or denied having nuclear weapons, although it is known to have built the reactor and reprocessing plant needed to build nuclear weapons.
