Information Deterrence: Transformation of the Strategic Stability Paradigm

... goals in war can be achieved by means other than nuclear arms. Many Russian and US international security experts agree that modern technologies are capable of unsettling the strategic balance. Photo: www.stephankinsella.com Mutual assured destruction (MAD) doctrine As both countries possessed the capability to inflict unacceptable damage in a nuclear war, this mutual Soviet-American nuclear deterrence became the basis for strategic stability throughout this bi-polar world. Strategic Stability in a Polycentric World Today, the Cold War definition of strategic stability is inevitably, no longer relevant – for two main reasons. First, from the point of view of international relations, the world is becoming increasingly polycentric. U.S.-Russian ...