Strategic Stability,NC3 Systems
Formal Summary - NC3 in a Multipolar Nuclear World: Big Structures and Large Processes
In this segment, Dr. Paul Bracken analyzes the big structures and large processes of nuclear multipolarity. A framework for analyzing this global system is developed, one made up of national command and control plus the "system dynamics" of their interlinked behavior. The paper underscores how advanced technologies — cyberwar, drones, and anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) — affects NC3. The structures include the national command and control of at least eighteen countries, to include nine nuclear weapon states, "shared" weapons in NATO, missile defense, and key intelligence nodes in select countries. Processes include the delegated flow of launch authority, innovation, and digitization in many forms.
The segment specifically assesses the two big structures that are forming in Europe and Asia. NATO is attempting to modernize its nuclear deterrent for the new realities of European security. In Asia, a pentapolar structure of major powers (United States, Russia, China, India, and Japan) has growing nuclear interactions: in missile defense, cyber, space, and in upsetting the U.S.–Russia strategic balance. The critical importance of information transfer for bolstering a coalition member's ability to target its nuclear forces is analyzed as an example of the "new" dynamics of multipolarity.
Segment Guests:
Dr. Paul Bracken - Professor at Yale University, former visiting scholar at the CIA - Grand Tactics and the Thin Skin of Civilization
Overview:
Grace Farley has served as a member of a global security team that includes the Directors of President Obama’s National Security Council and former leadership at the Pentagon and Department of Defense. Within the position, she led the communication strategies for confidential programs on artificial intelligence, nuclear prevention, and cybersecurity.
To broaden public awareness while translating the value proposition of the organization, Farley developed and served as the Executive Producer for a podcast focused on emerging threats at the nexus of technology and global security.
Based off of a confidential discussion held at the Hoover Institution, Farley developed an additional series focused on one of the most complex systems in the world today – the modernization of nuclear command and control systems and its increasingly complicated future.
This is a segment of a weekly series that takes you straight to the experts, across multiple sectors to include top leadership from Google, the CIA, the Pentagon discussing a global overview of strategic stability and NC3 systems.