Nuclear Future: Underwater and in the Skies

... development of strategic nuclear forces (SNF) from the middle to the end of the Cold War, the emergence of today’s nuclear triad, and elaborated on possible ways for developing the triad’s land-based component: intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in underground missile silos (UMS) and as part of road-mobile transporter-erector-launchers (TELs). Now we need to consider the air and naval components of the triad, as we will yield to the temptation to look “beyond the horizon.” The Air ...