Adam Mount @ajmount.com · Dec 19

Exponential arsenals happen because, left to their own devices, warheads will naturally divide into multiple warheads, i.e. proliferate. This is how you get arms races.

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Jérémy Cartier · Dec 19

Oh yeah. Even in the limited ecosystem in France, the TN 61 gave birth to TN 71 warheads in the mid to late 1980s

Alex Wellerstein · Dec 20

Adam Mount · Dec 19

Warheads "fissioning" is also where we get the term "nuclear chain reaction."