How to win a nuclear war
Many say that nuclear war cannot be won, however this is not the case, it just depends on exactly what you consider winning to mean. Let’s consider a simple model of two countries A and B, with three different target sets: leadership, nuclear weapons, and population. In the following three scenarios only the initial attack and the immediate response will be considered for simplicity, in reality there may be multiple waves of strikes from either side. let’s first consider country A attacking the population of country B. This would leave country B with its weapons intact to launch a full-scale retaliation against the population, leadership, and weapons of country A. This exchange would result in vast numbers of people dead for no gain whatsoever, therefore, this is something that no sane leader would ever consider ordering. Secondly let’s consider country A launching a decapitation strike against country B. The goal is to prevent the leadership of country B from being a...