After thinking over this comment a bit more, I think the latter portions may have a point but the opening sentence is very unfortunate because it misleads to the exact opposite of reality.
Nuclear weapons, in a counterattack at least, are actually the least influenced by ‘the shape of the institutions involved’ of any current weapons, due to the immense time pressure negating nearly all plausible differences in institutional arrangements, societal structure, culture, etc…
After thinking over this comment a bit more, I think the latter portions may have a point but the opening sentence is very unfortunate because it misleads to the exact opposite of reality.
Nuclear weapons, in a counterattack at least, are actually the least influenced by ‘the shape of the institutions involved’ of any current weapons, due to the immense time pressure negating nearly all plausible differences in institutional arrangements, societal structure, culture, etc…