Executive Summary This intelligence compendium dissects the systemic operational, rhetorical, and strategic risks undergirding the newly re-entrenched “deterrence gap” paradigm within contemporary U.S. nuclear modernization discourse. It demonstrates via structural analytic methodologies that framing theater-range asymmetric weapon deficits as self-evident windows of vulnerability dangerously misinterprets adversary calculations, undermines presidential decision-making flexibility, and introduces structural instability … Leggi tutto The Mirage of Proportionality: Deconstructing the “Deterrence Gap” in Sino-American and Russo-American Nuclear Architectures