Shane Praiswater's articles on Nuclear Network

About the Author

Major Shane "Axl" Praiswater is a B-52 Evaluator Pilot and Weapons Officer currently stationed at Barksdale AFB, LA. He has over 2000 hours in the B-52 (including 300+ combat hours) and is a PhD student at Pepperdine University.

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Visitors bowing in a show of respect for North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il on Mansudae (Mansu Hill) in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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Calling North Korea’s Bluff

by Shane Praiswater Guest Author

Published:June 20, 2018Last Updated:February 11, 2020

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Nuclear Strategy
Regional Dynamics

An Air Force weapons officer works “from the target back” to propose a radical new policy.

An unarmed AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress Sept. 22, 2014, over the Utah Test and Training Range during a Nuclear Weapons System Evaluation Program sortie.

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Strategies of Limited Nuclear War

by Shane Praiswater Guest Author

Published:February 8, 2018Last Updated:February 11, 2020

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Nuclear Strategy

What dictates escalation choices? For U.S. adversaries, the foremost concern may not be the security of the state or even the contested objective, but the security of the regime itself.