Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: Implications for Strategic Stability in the Coming Hypersonic Era
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Abstract
Hypersonic glide vehicles represent one of the first major strategic weapons developments since the end of the Cold War.These missiles, which are capable of carrying both nuclear and non-nuclear payloads threaten to alter the strategic balance of terror that has kept that great powers at peace since the late 1940's.Whether nuclear or non-nuclear these strategic weapons systems were developed in a strategic environment by the Russians and Chinese to bring increasing parity to their relationship with the United States.Their maneuverability, speed, and altitude make them impervious to ballistic missile defences now and into the near future, ensuring the continued survival of an assured destruction capacity for the three great powers.A stable strategic balance has served as the foundation for peace between the great powers since the advent of mass nuclear weapons; hypersonic glide vehicles foster a stable strategic balance now and into the near future, and as such it should be no surprise that these weapons will most likely be neither controlled nor abandoned by the three great powers.Instead, it is likely these missiles will serve as the new basis for mutually assured destruction and the corresponding strategic stability between the great powers into the coming decades.5 Snyder, "Deterrence and Power."Pg. 163 6 Robert Jervis.The Illogic of Nuclear Strategy.(Ithica, N.Y: Cornel University Press, 1989).Jervis argues that deterrence is technologically determined.The strategies and postures states use to deter adversary are referential to the technology they have.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".