Russian Defense Designer: Drone Warfare Has Ended the Era of Nuclear Invincibility

Ground, aerial, and maritime drones have effectively stripped away the "sacred status of the nuclear sword," Dmitry Kuzyakin, Chief Designer at the Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CKBR), wrote in a column published by Izvestia. Drone Warfare Is Changing the Role of Nuclear Weapons Kuzyakin argues that, in the past, an attack by a non-nuclear state against a country possessing nuclear weapons was considered virtually impossible because of the latter's nuclear status. In his view, the widespread deployment of unmanned technologies has fundamentally changed that reality.