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Hedge math: Theoretical limits on minimum stockpile size across nuclear hedging strategies

Lafleur, Jarret M.; Roesler, Alexander R.

In June 2013, the Department of Defense published a congressionally mandated, unclassified update on the U.S. Nuclear Employment Strategy. Among the many updates in this document are three key ground rules for guiding the sizing of the non-deployed U.S. nuclear stockpile. Furthermore, these ground rules form an important and objective set of criteria against which potential future stockpile hedging strategies can be evaluated.