Non-Fiction

The Nuclear Paradox & The NTG Doctrine

We have spent eighty years treating nuclear weapons as a political problem. They are, in reality, a systems-design problem. And we have not yet built the system capable of solving them. This paper proposes one.

On September 26, 1983, that assumption almost proved fatal. A Soviet officer named Stanislav Petrov, alone at a nuclear early-warning station outside Moscow, watched his screen report five incoming American missiles. His individual, unauthorised judgment prevented a nuclear exchange that would have killed hundreds of millions before the next morning.