The American system of response to missile attacks was created during the Cold War and was calculated taking into account the launch of Soviet missiles from the depths of the USSR. Currently, she is not able to react quickly to the modern means of attack Russia and China, writes in his article for the War on the Rocks US military experts Adam Lowther and Curtis MakGiffin.
As the authors say, the emergence of new means of missile attack has led to, that the system set up during the Cold War missile warning just can not manage to respond to the missile attack an enemy because of its bulkiness and just the human factor. Therefore, American experts suggest the United States to develop an analogue of the Soviet system of automatic control massive nuclear retaliation “Perimeter” (Dead Hand — “dead hand”).
It took a few hours in the 50-ies of the last century, Soviet bombers, to get to the United States. With the advent of missiles this time was reduced to 30 minutes for ICBMs and about 15 minutes for an ICBM, launched from a submarine. This gave time command to decide on retaliatory strike and other actions
– say authors.
The emergence of a hypersonic weapons and other modern systems “significantly reduce the time US leaders” to decide on retaliatory strike. such weapons, like cruise missiles “Caliber M” and X-102, nuclear submarine drone “Poseidon” and complex “avant-garde”, can not give a command for an adequate reaction time. Therefore, the output would be the creation of the United States of the Soviet / Russian system of analogue “Perimeter”, which could independently decide to strike back. The authors do not rule out, that person may subsequently lose control of artificial intelligence, control system.
Besides, to guard against Russian and Chinese nuclear threat, they offer to create and disperse throughout the United States moving mobile ICBMs, develop surveillance and reconnaissance, to catch the first to launch a nuclear strike (“kill or be killed”), and place of the enemy about the boundaries of medium-range missiles, to shorten the flight time.
Russia and China are developing their nuclear forces, and do not intend to abide by the existing agreements on arms control, so the United States should take all possible measures, to defend themselves from attack
– summarize the authors.
