BREAKING DEFENSE

Space and Air Force Reporter for the Breaking Defense, Theresa Hitchens, covered APLN Research Director Peter Hayes’ study on NC3 (Nuclear command, control, and communications) vulnerabilities in the Asia-Pacific. Read the article in full here.

‘The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network study, released today and provided to Breaking Defense in advance, finds that “serious incidents with the potential to escalate to nuclear war have occurred on average once every three years between nuclear-armed states and in each case NC3 has been integral to the cause of the crisis, contributing to the risk of possible nuclear use.”’