I love perusing GW's National Security Archive! And this doc, a declassified "study" from the peak of the Cold War, is the reason why. History from primary source material.
The most infamous file from the same period is Herbert Khan's RAND paper "The Nature and Feasibility of War and Deterrence"
All this informs current arguments for nuclear disarmament. But there's nothing to indicate anyone can predict how the addition of offensive cyber capabilities has changed the NC3 calculus.
Wargaming War Games: How Likely is Thermonuclear Cyber War?
Update: must read piece by Stanford's Amy Zegart in this morning's Politico. How the Cuban Missile Crisis would have played out in our world of open source intel ;)
The most infamous file from the same period is Herbert Khan's RAND paper "The Nature and Feasibility of War and Deterrence"
https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1888.html
All this informs current arguments for nuclear disarmament. But there's nothing to indicate anyone can predict how the addition of offensive cyber capabilities has changed the NC3 calculus.
Wargaming War Games: How Likely is Thermonuclear Cyber War?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0mm8UkVOc