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inadvertent escalation: a standalone construct

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Security studies

escalation to nuclear use that neither side intends, arising when conventional operations threaten the other side's nuclear forces.

In security studies, inadvertent escalation refers to escalation to nuclear use that neither side intends, arising when conventional operations threaten the other side's nuclear forces. This meaning comes from Posen (1982) in International Security.[1]

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Posen, B. R. (1982). Inadvertent Nuclear War?: Escalation and NATO's Northern Flank. International Security, 7(2), 28. https://doi.org/10.2307/2538432

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