fiction. See also Air Force Global Strike Command Basic Encyclopedia Broken-backed war theory Cuban Missile Crisis Doomsday Clock Global catastrophic risk Human extinction International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe List of CBRN warfare forces List of nuclear close calls List of states with nuclear weapons Mount Yamantau Nuclear arms race Nuclear blackout Nuclear briefcase Nuclear famine Nuclear holocaust Nuclear terrorism Nuclear weapon Nuclear weapons and the United States Nuclear weapons debate Nuclear winter People's Liberation Army Rocket Force Permissive Action Link Prevention of nuclear catastrophe Transition to war World War III References Further reading Laura Grego and David Wright, "Broken Shield: Missiles designed to destroy incoming nuclear warheads fail frequently in tests and could increase global risk of mass destruction", Scientific American, vol. 320, no. no. 6 (June 2019), pp. 62–67. "Nuclear-armed missiles are a political problem that technology cannot solve.... Current U.S. missile defense plans are being driven largely by technology, politics and fear. Missile defenses will not allow us to escape our vulnerability to nuclear weapons. Instead large-scale developments will create barriers to taking real steps toward reducing nuclear risks—by blocking further cuts in nuclear arsenals and potentially spurring new deployments." (p. 67.) Jessica T. Mathews, "The New Nuclear Threat", The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVII, no. 13 (20 August 2020), pp. 19–21. "[P]owerful reasons to doubt that there could be a limited nuclear war [include] those that emerge from any study of history, a knowledge of how humans act under pressure, or experience of government." (p. 20.) "Possibility of Nuclear War in Asia: An Indian Perspective", a project of United Service Institution of India, USI, Discusses the possibility of a nuclear war in Asia from the Indian point of view. Thomas Powers, "The Nuclear Worrier" (review of Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, New York, Bloomsbury, 2017, , 420 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXV, no. 1 (18 January 2018), pp. 13–15. "Presidency in the Nuclear Age", conference and forum at the JFK Library, Boston, October 12, 2009. Four panels: "The Race to Build the Bomb and the Decision to Use It", "Cuban Missile Crisis and the First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", "The Cold War and the Nuclear Arms Race", and "Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, and the Presidency". Tom Stevenson, "A Tiny Sun" (review of Fred Kaplan, The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear