And it certainly cannot be assumed that there will never be human or technological errors, with harmless events being read as threatening (as in 1995, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin was advised to retaliate immediately against an incoming NATO missile, which proved to be a Norwegian scientific rocket).
Même ceux qui croient dur comme fer à l’effet de dissuasion nucléaire sont forcés de constater qu’elle constitue un fondement extrêmement fragile au maintien de la paix.