Strategic Command, Control and Communications (C3): The United States must ensure that the C3 systems that operate and integrate its strategic offensive and defensive forces effectively are given no less budgetary priority than is accorded those forces.

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But many systems that were not deemed vital during a nuclear war, such as non-strategic command and control, were left unprotected.

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