Nuclear Stability. Do nuclear weapons contribute to increasing or decreasing stability?

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Basics and General, grade: C+, , language: English, abstract: Nuclear weapons enable a state to inflict a lot of damage at once to another state, if the other state does not have the ability to strike back. This is why the Nuclear Triad is so important, as it gives states a chance to launch nuclear weapons from land, sea and air. If you knew that ...