[LINK] The Perils of Primacy

[rfmcdonald]

Benjamin Schwarz' "The Perils of Primacy", taken from the January/February 2006 edition of The Atlantic, is available in its entirety here. What happens when the US nuclear deterrent is incomparably more advanced and efficient than the Russian or the Chinese? Potentially, very bad things indeed, like the decentralization of control over nuclear weapons systems.