I asked Dr. Paul Bracken, author of the tour de force book, The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger and New Power Politics, for a comment. He replied:
The pace of military technology has reached a level not seen since the cold war in the 1950s. Drones, cyber-war, targeted killings, anti-satellites weapons, hypersonic missiles are coming into the forces not just of the United States but of many countries. Add to this atomic weapons, and soon, hydrogen bombs for India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. We are entering a new world of technology, yet the old political order of nation states remains essentially unchanged. The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit shows the growing tension of a political order that is out of phase with technology advances. Something has to give, and I don't think it's going to come from a slowdown in technology.
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