id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-002471 Study offers sobering analysis of U.S. nuclear dominance | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 814 34 42 Owls, who worry about the possibility of inadvertent conflict, will fret thatU.S.nuclear primacy could prompt other nuclear powers to adopt strategic postures, such as giving control of nuclear weapons to lower-level commanders, which would make an unauthorized nuclear strike more likely. Lieber and Press indicate, however, that the end of the age of MAD is upon us because theUnited Statesis on the verge of attaining nuclear primacy. cache/news-002471.html txt/news-002471.txt