Launch Under Attack vs. Launch On Warning

The difference between seeing and believing.

So, a propos of some writing I was doing today for a longer-form project, I felt compelled to write a short piece about a couple of bits of nuclear jargon that, I think, are poorly understood. Specifically, I want to talk a bit about the terms “launch-on-warning” and “launch-under-attack.” These are often abbreviated to LoW and LUA, respectively.

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