Citerank: (7) 55143Increased risk that non-state terrorists will acquire nuclear weapons1198CE71, 55144Non-State terrorists aren't amenable to a deterrence strategyThe traditional strategy of deterrence—i.e. the threat of a nuclear response to a nuclear attack—may be irrelevant to (or even, in extreme cases, welcomed by) some terrorist groups.8FFB597, 55145New nuclear weapons states lack historic step-by-step safeguardsNew nuclear states do not have the benefit of years of step-by-step safeguards put in effect during the Cold War to prevent nuclear accidents, misjudgments or unauthorized launches.1198CE71, 128366Non-State terrorists aren't amenable to a deterrence strategyThe traditional strategy of deterrence—i.e. the threat of a nuclear response to a nuclear attack—may be irrelevant to (or even, in extreme cases, welcomed by) some terrorist groups.8FFB597, 128446Increased risk that non-state terrorists will acquire nuclear weapons1198CE71, 128539Doctrine of mutual Soviet-American deterrence is obsoleteThe end of the Cold War made the doctrine of mutual Soviet-American deterrence obsolete.1198CE71, 128837New nuclear weapons states lack historic step-by-step safeguardsNew nuclear states do not have the benefit of years of step-by-step safeguards put in effect during the Cold War to prevent nuclear accidents, misjudgments or unauthorized launches.1198CE71

...the nature of the cold war conflict, which saw either mutually assured destruction or a series of proxy wars — low level, all around the world — has been replaced with a multilateral or multipolar world where the United States is a singular military power, but our relationship with Russia has changed for the better, our relationship with other nuclear powers are ones in which generally tensions are managed effectively. And that the big threat now are threats of nuclear terrorism, forms of asymmetrical warfare, state sponsorship of terrorism — all of which I think require more than just a nuclear option or no option but a series of graded options that can be a realistic, serious deterrent.