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The Fourth Leg
Institute for Security and Technology
24 episodes
6 days ago
The Fourth Leg is a series of podcasts focused on one of the most complex systems in the world today—nuclear command and control—and its increasingly complicated future. Hosted by Institute for Security and Technology's Philip Reiner, we go straight to the experts across multiple sectors to discuss the modernization of nuclear command and control systems.
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The Fourth Leg is a series of podcasts focused on one of the most complex systems in the world today—nuclear command and control—and its increasingly complicated future. Hosted by Institute for Security and Technology's Philip Reiner, we go straight to the experts across multiple sectors to discuss the modernization of nuclear command and control systems.
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Questioning Unitary Command: Nuclear Launch Authority and the N-Person Problem
The Fourth Leg
57 minutes 23 seconds
6 years ago
Questioning Unitary Command: Nuclear Launch Authority and the N-Person Problem

In this segment, Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes are joined by Dr. Alex Wellerstein, who sketches a framework for thinking about how concentrated nuclear use authority should be at the top. While he discusses specific U.S. proposals for reform in response to recent domestic debates, the scope of his analysis is uniquely global, and includes a comparative analysis of the approach of all nine nuclear weapons states. Global NC3 systems are historically constituted and contextualized, the result of considerable debate and experimentation over time within nuclear states. This fact points to their necessary adaptability, and to the opportunity for novel approaches going forward. Using a global perspective, the framework presented by Dr. Wellerstein within this segment could provide inspiration for alternative, perhaps less risky nuclear command and control arrangements.

The Fourth Leg
The Fourth Leg is a series of podcasts focused on one of the most complex systems in the world today—nuclear command and control—and its increasingly complicated future. Hosted by Institute for Security and Technology's Philip Reiner, we go straight to the experts across multiple sectors to discuss the modernization of nuclear command and control systems.