Nuclear Deterrence, Safety and NC3 Resilience as a Strategic Priority in NATO, the European Union and Allied Architectures

Strategic rationale and political anchoring

The strategic priority concerns the credibility of nuclear deterrence under conditions of renewed revisionist coercion, accelerated technological contestation, and a demonstrable expansion of pathways to escalation that do not rely on conventional force-on-force engagements. In the Euro-Atlantic environment, th…