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These five weapons of war are "overrated" in the sense that they occupy a larger space in the defense-security conversation than they really deserve.

A few years ago, I directed  Harvard Extension School’s “Crisis Game,” in which students had to play out a hypothetical Cold War crisis involving nuclear weapons. The realization that a crisis could escalate to nuclear war shocked younger students who had never given much thought to this issue, especially when they found the game sliding from an exercise in negotiation toward nuclear doom. (“I was literally sweating,” one of the players later said.) But is a nuclear war between Russ...